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

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**Created:** [November 21, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-narrow-thread-any-book-recs-on-the-civil-war-in-tennessee/427367 "2007-11-21T21:16:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-narrow-thread-any-book-recs-on-the-civil-war-in-tennessee/427367/1 "2007-11-21T21:16:36Z")

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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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**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-narrow-thread-any-book-recs-on-the-civil-war-in-tennessee/427367/2 "2007-11-21T21:24:19Z")

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[Here](http://www.amazon.com/Five-Tragic-Hours-Battle-Franklin/dp/0870493973) 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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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somewhat-narrow-thread-any-book-recs-on-the-civil-war-in-tennessee/427367/3 "2007-11-21T22:20:09Z")

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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.