LCWRT Announcing Our 522nd Meeting

 Friday, October 13, 2017

"Grant Invades Tennessee: Forts Henry and

 Donelson”

Presented by Timothy B. Smith

We welcome back Tim Smith who will speak on his award-winning book, Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson.

Forts Henry and Donelson are often described as key events in the Civil War, but they have never before been analyzed to the degree Timothy B. Smith does in his award winning Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson, upon which this talk will be based. Smith offers a good dose of revisionism in examining tactical details of the fighting, the larger context of the actions, as well as the implications of the campaign. Smith will examine leadership, terrain, and consequences in this reevaluation of one of the most highly touted campaigns of the Civil War.

Timothy B. Smith, Civil War author and historian, is a native of Mississippi but now resides in Tennessee, where he teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Smith received both BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Mississippi and a PhD from Mississippi State University in 2001.  Pursuing his love of history, Smith worked for the National Park Service at the Shiloh National Military Park for seven years, where his interest in the Civil War was intensified. His main area of interest and specialty, besides the Civil War, is the history of Civil War battlefield preservation.

Tim Smith is widely regarded as the leading tour guide of the battle of Shiloh and of the siege and battle of Corinth. He is the author of a number of books including Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and Battlefield, Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory, Shiloh: Conquer or Perish, The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation: The Decade of the 1890s and the Establishment of America’s First Five Military Parks, and Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation.