The results of the Tullahoma campaign were strategically more important than Gettysburg and tactically on a par with Vicksburg. The Tullahoma campaign of 1863 is often overlooked, overshadowed by the simultaneous events at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. However, the strategic results of the campaign were enormous: the Confederacy lost the human, agricultural, and industrial capacity of middle Tennessee; Chattanooga came under fire; and the Union Army of the Cumberland took a large step forward in the campaign to divide the Confederacy. "The hero in Michael R. Bradley's account is Rosecrans, who succeeded through tactical 'improvisation.'" -- Civil War Book Review, June/July 2000 Michael R. Bradley has a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and has taught at Motlow College since 1970. He has a lifelong interest in the American Civil War.