Cover -- Jacket Flaps -- Overview Map -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Steven E. Woodworth -- 1. The Long Lost Diary of Major General Patrick R. Cleburne / Edited by William Lee White -- 2. "The Storm Broke in All Its Fury": The Struggle for Allatoona Pass / Stewart Bennett -- 3. Errant Moves on the Chess board of War: The Battle of Spring Hill, November 29, 1864 / John R. Lundberg -- 4. The Destruction of the Army of Tennessee's Officer Corps at the Battle of Franklin / Andrew S. Bledsoe -- 5. Killing at Franklin: Anatomy of Slaughter / Jonathan M. Steplyk -- 6. A Failure to Communicate: Grant, Thomas, and the Nashville Campaign / Brooks D. Simpson -- Gallery -- 7. Where Genius Cannot Exist: The Generalship of George H. Thomas / Paul L. Schmelzer -- 8. "No More Auction Block for Me": The Fight for Freedom by the U.S. Colored Troops at the Battle of Nashville / D. L. Turner and Scott L. Stabler -- 9. A. J. Smith's Detachment in the Battle of Nashville / Steven E. Woodworth -- 10. Civilian Participants and Observers during the Franklin-Nashville Campaign / John J. Gaines -- 11. "Our Peoples Are Depressed in Spirit": Texans' Reactions to Hood's Tennessee Campaign / Charles D. Grear -- 12. What Could Have Been: Civil War Battlefield Preservation at Franklin / Timothy B. Smith -- 13. Preserving the Nashville Battlefield: The South's True Lost Cause / Jennifer M. Murray -- Contributors -- Index -- Series Statement -- Other Books in the Series -- Back Cover.