AUTUMN OF GLORY : THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE, 1862-1865

Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 9.6 in. x 6.25 in., pp. 558. Illustrated with sixteen black and white photographs and eight maps. Gray boards with red confederate design and gilt title to spine. Light edgewear on top/bottom of spine. Rear bottom corner nudged. Fingerprint stains to fore-edge. Previous owner's name whited-out on front free endpaper. Light edgewear to edges of dustjacket. Crisp copy. Thomas Lawrence Connelly (1938 - 1991) was an American historian and author who specialized in the Civil War era. Connelly became one of the most prominent scholars of the war in the western theater in a scholarly field dominated by books about Virginia and its military leaders. Part of his mission to highlight the war in the West was personal. He was frustrated by the fact that his own family's Civil War history was shrouded in rumor and legend. "Scores of person experiences," he wrote later, "a handful of tales related by an old man, and a shoe box of bullet garments--such is one family's heritage in the Army of Tennessee."