Looking beyond the battlefields to the wider political and social context of the times, "Six Armies in Tennessee" brings order and system to a complex set of events, events crucial to the outcome of the Civil War.
A variety of important but lesser-known dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign of spring 1863 are explored in this collection of eight original essays.
In her groundbreaking study, Anne J. Bailey assesses how military events in Georgia and Tennessee intertwined and affected the political, social, and economic conditions in those areas and throughout the nation.