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

Shrouds of Glory is the riveting account of Confederate General John Bell Hood's audacious attempt to vanquish the Union on the western front during the final months of the Civil War. Following the Army of Tennessee from defeat in Atlanta to heartbreak in Franklin to the devastating, controversial battle on the outskirts of Nashville that finally ended the Confederacy's last great offensive, acclaimed novelist and historian Winston Groom takes us into the general's tent, brilliantly combining eyewitness accounts, journal entries, and military communiques to reveal the character, faults, emotions, and, most of all, the doubts that molded one of history's most significant campaigns. Book jacket.

Winston Groom is the author of thirteen books, including Forrest Gump, Better Times Than These, As Summers Die, A Storm in Flanders, and Conversations With the Enemy, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize