Synopses & Reviews
Review
"These two prominent military historians, both of whom grew up in Middle Tennessee near Franklin, have produced a well-researched and well-illustrated account of one of the fiercest but least-known battles of the Civil War. Sensitive to local details and the personalities of participants, the authors are usually insightful and astute in their judgments; this will be the standard work on Franklin for some time to come. Unfortunately, it is marred by occasional misuse of words and by such redundancies as 'remaining remnants.' The maps are inadequate and rarely helpful. Most important, the borrowings from the more general theses of other historians are too often awkward, uncritical, and not supported by McDonough and Connelly's own evidence. Especially annoying is their attempt to explain Franklin with the asinine thesis of McWhiney and Jamieson's Attack and Die." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)