With the collapse of the Confederate defences at Forts Henry and Donelson on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, the entire Tennessee Valley was open to Union invasion and control. These Northern victories set up the 1864 Atlanta Campaign that cut the Confederacy in two. Had Confederate planning and leadership been better, no one can say what difference it might have made to the Civil War in the West and the outcome of the war itself.
- ISBN10 0811745376
- ISBN13 9780811745376
- Publish Date 20 July 2011 (first published 15 July 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stackpole Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 368
- Language English