Timothy B. Smith
Author of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
About the Author
Timothy B. Smith (Ph.D. Mississippi State University, 2001) is a veteran of the National Park Service and teaches history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of many books including Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg (2004), which-won the show more nonfiction book award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (2012), winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award and McLemore Prize, and Shilob: Conquer or Perish (2014), whose accolades include the Douglas Southall Freeman Award. He is finshing a book on the May 19 and 22 Vicksburg assaults. He lives with his wire Kelly and children Mary Kate and Leah Grace in Adamsville, Tennessee. show less
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Works by Timothy B. Smith
The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi (2018) 51 copies
This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park (2004) 27 copies
The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation: The Decade of the 1890's and the Establishment of America's First… (2008) 27 copies
Early Struggles for Vicksburg: The Mississippi Central Campaign and Chickasaw Bayou, October 25-December 31, 1862… (2022) 24 copies
The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863 (2021) 20 copies
Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1-April 30, 1863 (2023) 14 copies
The Decision Was Always My Own: Ulysses S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign (World of Ulysses S. Grant) (2018) 12 copies
The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg: Five Battles in Seventeen Days, May 1-17, 1863 (Modern War Studies) (2024) 7 copies
A Chickamauga Memorial: The Establishment of America's First Civil War National Military Park (2009) 7 copies
The Mississippi Secession Convention: Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War, 1861-1865 (2014) 5 copies
Associated Works
Turning Freud Upside Down: Gospel Perspectives on Psychotherapy's Fundamental Problems (2005) — Contributor — 4 copies
Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 (Metaforms) (2015) — Contributor — 3 copies
Turning Freud Upside Down 2: More Gospel Perspectives on Psychotherapy's Fundamental Problems (2017) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Overview: Tracing the life of the highest-ranking American military officer to die in combat during the Civil War, this new biography explores both the man and the soldier.
Take-aways: Since he died early in the war, the impact of Johnston’s death on Confederate leadership is often overlooked. Use this recent scholarship to update course materials.
ARC courtesy of LSU Press.