CG suggestions for June trip - Civil War sites in the west

If it's your intent to visit the real Western Theater major battle sites (as various noted authors describe them) those would be Shiloh, Chickamauga, Vicksburg and Atlanta. There was a major battle at Franklin, Tenn. also. While there were other major actions in the Western Theater east of the Miss. these battles began the final death-knell for the Confederacy.