Guide to Civil War Nashville

"Guide to Civil War Nashville" is a 76-page book by the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society that takes you, armchair-bound or in your vehicle, on a 50-mile-long tour of 25 historic sites in Tennessee'’s capital city associated with the 1862-65 Union occupation and the 1864 Battle of Nashville, regarded by some as the decisive battle of the Civil War.
Proudly featured are four unique Battle of Nashville combat maps, unprecedented in detail, designed by BONPS Historian Ross Massey.
The softbound book feature 63 modern-day photographs, 31 Civil War-era photographs, seven illustrations, 16 travel maps and seven battle maps.
The sites on the tour include the State Capitol and Museum, four historic antebellum mansions, four antebellum churches, three cemeteries (each with touring map), and 12 battle sites.
A detailed map and driving directions with GPS coordinates guides you to all the sites, which are each pictured and described. Included are the locations and text of all Battle of Nashville historical markers.
The ten-page section on the Battle of Nashville features five battle maps and is followed by a six-page Orders of Battle for Thomas and Hood’s armies. There is also a page devoted to the 19 receipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
A detailed map with accompanying descriptions shows you what downtown Nashville looked like in 1864.
Illustrated feature stories include the following:
Fall of the River Forts
The Surrender of Nashville
Gunboats and Transports: The Role of the Cumberland River
Beans and Bullets: U.S. Military Railroads (including regional map)
Military rule, martial law, and the re-establishment of civilian government
Nashville’s military hospitals
Prostitution legalized by U.S. Army
U.S. Army defense of Nashville with maps and diagrams
Rock City Guards and Nashville militia
Aftermath of the war
"Guide to Civil War Nashville" also includes a Civil War timeline, military operations map of Middle Tennessee, features on U.S. forts in nearby Franklin and Murfreesboro, a guide to other Civil War tourism sites in Middle Tennessee, and a bibliography.

• Nashville 1864: From the Tennessee to the Cumberland (Campaign)
• The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of Nashville
• Tennessee's Civil War Battlefields: A Guide to Their History and Preservation
• The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville (Modern War Studies)
• Battle above the Clouds: Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863 (Emerging Civil War Series)
• The Battle of Franklin: When the Devil had Full Possession of the Earth
• Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble
• Let Us Die Like Men: The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series)
• For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair At Spring Hill & the Battle of Franklin
• The Franklin-Nashville Campaign: The History of the Civil War Campaign that Destroyed the Confederate Army of Tennessee