"Training, Tactics and Leadership in the Confederate Army of Tennessee deals with every aspect of an army from its senior officers to the lowliest private, and takes the reader through the process every Southerner passed through as he tried to adapt to military life, train and, finally, overcome his enemy on the field."-- From the book jacket.

The Southern Martial Tradition --Antebellum Military Theory and Experience -- The South Goes to War -- The Battle of Shiloh -- Training in the Heat of a Mississippi Summer -- The Kentucky Campaign -- The Battle of Stones River -- Training in the Light of Experience -- The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns -- Training for the Atlanta Campaign -- Joseph E. Johnston and the Atlanta Campaign -- Desperation and Destruction in the Final Year of the War -- Examinations for Artillery Officers.