Conquered

The publication of Thomas L. Connelly's masterly two-volume history of the Army of Tennessee, Army of the Heartland (1967) and Autumn of Glory (1971), revolutionized Civil War history in several ways. First, the work focused attention on the war's western theater as never before and argued that the conflict was decided there and not in Virginia. Second, the volumes inspired study of why all Confederate armies other than Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia were unsuccessful. Larry J. Daniel's Conquered revisits the Army of Tennessee with an eye toward explaining the army's failure and explores the nearly fifty years of scholarship since the publication of Connelly's work. Daniel's book is unlike Connelly's in many respects. He uses Joseph T. Glatthaar's General Lee's Army (2008) as a model, and he approaches his study of the Army of Tennessee chronologically and topically. He does not cover the battles and campaigns in great detail, preferring instead to examine only the strategic and operational aspects of the military actions. Along the way, he points out where historians differ and where post-Connelly scholarship offers new insights and interpretations

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