Somewhat narrow thread: any book recs on the Civil War in Tennessee?

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I’m wanting to take a Civil War tour of Tennessee over the holidays (a genealogical interest thing- my ancestors were mostly in The Army of Tennesseee). Can anybody recommend any good reading, fiction or non, on any of the Tennessee campaigns (I’m including Chickamauga since it’s “spittin’ distance”)? I can find plenty of bibliographies of course, but I’m asking for personal recs.

For that matter if you have any recs for sites to see other than the obvious battlefields in the east Tennessee/north Georgia region, please recommend.

Aside: I’ve done several googles trying to find any of the several books written by Joseph Wheeler online but to no avail. Anyone know of any free sites that reproduce all or part of these?

Thanks

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Here is one that I think is pretty good. Franklin is just south of Nashville. Not much Civil War stuff to see in Nashville itself that I recall except some leftover entrenchments from the 1864 battle in one of the parks.

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Shrouds of Glory by Winston Groom (the author of Forrest Gump) is a pretty good nonfiction overview of the war in the west, including the Franklin and Nashville campaign. I’ve heard good things about the recent novel The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, which is Tennessee-focused.