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 Van Dorn: The Life and Times of a Confederate General Biography of the flamboyant Earl Van Dorn, one of the most promising yet disappointing officers in the Confederate Army |
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Tennessee State Battle Map State Battle Maps American Civil War Exhibits Campaigns of the War Civil War Summary Documents of the Civil War Confederate Commanders Union Generals Civil War Timeline Women Civil War Soldiers Ships and Naval Battles Confederate Supplies |
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| By mid 1862, Union gains in the Mississippi Valley and in Tennessee and Kentucky had brought the Confederacy to a point of strategic crisis. This valuable addition to the growing literature on the Civil War in the West tells how the Union then failed to press home its advantage while the Confederacy failed to force Kentucky into the Confederacy. The climax of these events was the little-known Battle of Perryville, in which a greatly inferior Southern force under Braxton Bragg managed a draw against Don Carlos Buell's Union army but also effectively terminated the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. McDonough has researched thoroughly and written clearly, making this book informative and accessible to a wide range of Civil War students. |
| Cozzens follows up his magisterial account of the Battle of Chickamauga, This Terrible Sound (1992), with an equally authoritative study of the Chattanooga campaign that followed it. Braxton Bragg (who sometimes seems unfit to have been at large on the public streets, let alone commanding armies) failed to either destroy or starve out the Union Army of the Cumberland. In due course, superior Northern resources and strategy--not tactics; few generals on either side come out looking like good tacticians--progressively loosened the Confederate cordon around the city. Finally, the Union drove off Bragg's army entirely in the famous Battle of Missionary Ridge, which was a much more complex affair than previous, heroic accounts make it. Like its predecessor on Chickamauga, this is such a good book on Chattanooga that it's hard to believe any Civil War collection will need another book on the subject for at least a generation. |  The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga |
Women in the War
Civil War Cooking
Civil War Submarines
Kids Zone Causes of the War
Sources:
U.S. National Park Service
U.S. Library of Congress.
