Description
The first edition, first printing of The Decisive Battle of Nashville, signed by Stanley F. Horn on a limitation page.
Octavo, xiii, [5], 181pp, [1]. Marbled blue boards, top edge dyed blue. The first printing, with no additional printings noted on the copyright page. Complete with all noted maps and battlefield illustrations. This copy appears unread. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price clipped, printed with maps of the “Battle of Nashville” on verso, bright illustrations, a near fine example.
Signed by Stanley F. Horn on a tipped-in limitation page from “The Civil War Book Club.”
The Battle of Nashville, fought on December 15-16, 1864, was the final large-scale engagement in the Western Theater of the Civil War. Union forces under Major General George H. Thomas decisively defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood. Following the failed Confederate assault at Franklin, Hood advanced toward Nashville in hopes of disrupting Union control in Tennessee. However, Thomas launched a well-planned counteroffensive, overwhelming the entrenched Confederate positions over two days. The Confederate army suffered heavy casualties and was effectively destroyed as a fighting force, ending major Confederate operations in the West.
