“The definitive account of Union Maj.

Gen.

William S.

Rosecrans’ operational masterpiece— the almost bloodless conquest .

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of Middle Tennessee.” —Sam Davis Elliott, author of Soldier of TennesseeJuly 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War.

News of Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the South.

Sandwiched geographically between those victories and lost in the heady tumult of events was news that William S.

Rosecrans’ Army of the Cumberland had driven Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee entirely out of Middle Tennessee.

The brilliant campaign nearly cleared the state of Rebels and changed the calculus of the Civil War in the Western Theater.