| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in the West. By Steven E. Woodworth. (Westport: Praeger, 2008. xiv, 165 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-275-98759-6.)

A rapidly growing number of historians have come to recognize that the Civil War was decided by events in the western theater of operations. Though long overshadowed by the bloodier, yet less significant actions in the East, the campaigns west of the Appalachian Mountains, especially those waged for control of the Mississippi River, were decisive and brought the Confederacy and the Southern people to their knees. It was the actions at forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Atlanta; the march to the sea; and the final operations in the Carolinas that destroyed the war-making capabilities of the Confederacy and shattered morale on the Southern home front. In the wake of Union forces that marched inexorably across the heartland of America, dreams of Southern independence were dashed on the ruins of the Confederacy.

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