Shrouds of Glory--From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War

Shrouds of Glory-From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War. By Winston Groom. Simon and Schuster, 1995. 320 Pages. $14.00. Reviewed by Major Don Rightmyer, U.S. Air Force, Retired.

While General Ulysses Grant engaged Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the East from mid-1864 until the surrender at Appomattox in April 1865, General W.T. Sherman pursued the Confederate Army of Tennessee on his campaign for Atlanta and headed into Georgia's interior on the "march to the sea." This book's subject is the campaign for Atlanta launched from Chattanooga in 1864. Instead of...