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• W2767755529 abstract "Reviewed by: Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson by Timothy B. Smith J. Michael Crane Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson. By Timothy B. Smith. Modern War Studies. ( Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016. Pp. xxii, 513. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-2313-6.) Considering its importance to the outcome of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant's February 1862 campaign against Forts Henry and Donelson—unfairly overshadowed by the massive battle of Shiloh that took place two months later—has been one of the most understudied events of the war. In the last three decades, only Benjamin Franklin Cooling and Kendall D. Gott have published academic works on the early Tennessee campaign. Timothy B. Smith rectifies this dearth of attention with an exhaustive military history of the pivotal battles that put the Confederacy on the defensive in the West for most of the remaining conflict. Smith convincingly argues that when historians discuss the two battles, they emphasize the Confederate surrender of Fort Donelson and its nearly fifteen thousand soldiers over the more strategically significant loss of Fort Henry ten days earlier. Smith observes that it was the capture of Fort Henry that actually shook the Confederacy to its core from Richmond to New Orleans. The Confederate retreat from Columbus and Bowling Green, Kentucky, and the famous concentration at Corinth, Mississippi, that resulted in Shiloh all began as a result of Fort Henry's and Fort Heiman's fall, not Fort Donelson's (p. xiv). Fort Donelson's importance stemmed from the Union army's need to protect their newly acquired Fort Henry. With the loss of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson had a temporary strategic importance for the Confederates because it allowed Albert Sidney Johnston's forces to escape from Bowling Green and cross the Cumberland River. Smith's book, intended to be a comprehensive strategic, operational, and tactical look at the campaign, offers readers a regimental-level study of the planning, organization, movement, and leadership of the Union and Confederate forces that collided in a bitterly cold campaign to control two critical rivers close to the Kentucky border. In sixteen chapters and an epilogue, Smith skillfully guides the reader through the complex joint operations that the Union army and navy mounted to seize weak points in the Confederacy's defensive line. Smith makes extensive use of memoirs, official reports, newspapers, diaries, and soldiers' letters to reveal not just the perspectives of the generals during the battles but also those of common soldiers, many of whom were facing combat for the first time and understandably found the experience traumatic and hardening. The University Press of Kansas deserves credit for [End Page 979] dispersing twenty excellent, easy-to-read maps throughout the book that greatly enhance the reading experience. In the end, Smith unsurprisingly attributes the Confederate loss of the forts to commanders' poor leadership on the battlefield and in the theater, despite the soldiers' robust efforts. The largely incompetent Confederate generals John B. Floyd and Gideon Pillow made poor tactical decisions that led to the capture of their forces. However, the ultimate blame for key fatal operational and strategic decisions belongs to Johnston. Smith argues, Putting Floyd and Pillow together at Fort Donelson was a recipe for disaster, and in that sense Albert Sidney Johnston must also bear some blame for the Confederate fiasco at Fort Donelson (p. 327). Moreover, Johnston made the strategic blunder of funneling sorely needed men and supplies elsewhere instead of into Fort Donelson, which he had declared untenable after Fort Henry fell (p. 394). In essence, Johnston's martyrdom at Shiloh spared him the scrutiny that many of his fellow unsuccessful western Confederate generals faced after the war. Smith has provided scholars with a definitive history of Grant's pivotal campaign to enable the Union invasion of the Confederate western theater and has filled a vast hole in Civil War military historiography. J. Michael Crane University of Arkansas Fort Smith Copyright © 2017 The Southern Historical Association" @default.
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