Tullahoma, David A. Powell
Tullahoma, David A. Powell
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Tullahoma
The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Civil War, June 23 - July 4, 1863

Author: David A. Powell, Eric J. Wittenberg

Narrator: Al Kessel

Unabridged: 15 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/29/2021

Synopsis

July 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the South. Sandwiched geographically between those victories and lost in the heady tumult of events was news that William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland had driven Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee entirely out of Middle Tennessee. The brilliant campaign nearly cleared the state of Rebels and changed the calculus of the Civil War in the Western Theater. Despite its decisive significance, few people even today know of these events. The publication of Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War, June 23–July 4, 1863 by award-winning authors David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg, forever rectifies that oversight.

Powell and Wittenberg mined hundreds of archival and firsthand accounts to craft a splendid study of this overlooked campaign that set the stage for the Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga, the removal of Rosecrans and Bragg from the chessboard of war, the elevation of Ulysses S. Grant to command all Union armies, and the early stages of William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. Tullahoma—one of the most brilliantly executed major campaigns of the war—was pivotal to Union success in 1863 and beyond. And now listeners will know precisely why.

About David A. Powell

David A. Powell is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (1983) with a BA in history. He has published numerous articles in various magazines, and more than fifteen historical simulations of different battles. For the past decade, David's focus has been on the epic battle of Chickamauga, and he is nationally recognized for his tours of that important battlefield. The results of that study are five books, The Maps of Chickamauga, Failure in the Saddle, and the three volumes of a Chickamauga trilogy: The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle, The Chickamauga Campaign: Glory or the Grave, and the final volume, The Chickamauga Campaign: Barren Victory. His most recent works include Battle Above the Clouds and Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah: Major General Franz Sigel and the War in the Valley of Virginia, May 1864. David, his wife Anne, and their brace of Bloodhounds live and work in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. He is vice president of Airsped, Inc., a specialized delivery firm.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph on September 21, 2022

A much needed addition to the history of the Western Theater, this book delivers in a big way. The book chronicles Rosencrans' Tullahoma campaign, and makes the case that it was just as significant as Gettysburg and Vicksburg were to overall Union victory. While Meade and Grant usually have the spot......more

Goodreads review by Sean on January 09, 2021

Back in 2016 I started work on a Tullahoma book, because there was great need of one, but I heard Powell and Wittenberg were writing just such a book. Both men are among the best in the business, so I held off. I was not wrong to do so. This is a pretty comprehensive overview of the lead up to the c......more

Goodreads review by Mark on October 31, 2020

I consider Dave Powell one of the leading current Civil War history writers. And I'm a Rosecrans fan and recognize the Tullahoma campaign as a great strategic achievement. The problem is, it just doesn't carry enough weight for 356 pages of text. You can only describe so many marches and rain and mu......more

Goodreads review by Josh on August 26, 2022

Tullahoma was the American Civil War campaign in Tennessee between Stones River and Chickamauga. Like the six months after Gettysburg in Virginia, this campaign has been historically skimmed over because it resulted in no major battles. Tullahoma was also overshadowed by Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Un......more

Goodreads review by W on February 15, 2021

Most Americans today know Gettysburg, some Americans today know Vicksburg, very few Americans today know Tullahoma. This book is really the first attempt to bring the 1863 Tullahoma Campaign back from oblivion. Federal General William Rosecrans leads the Army of the Cumberland in a classic Napoleoni......more

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