War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to PerryvilleUniv. of Tennessee Press, 1994 - 386 頁 War in Kentucky From Shiloh to Perryville James Lee McDonough A compelling new volume from the author of Shiloh In Hell before Night and Chattanooga A Death Grip on the Confederacy, this book explores the strategic importance of Kentucky for both sides in the Civil War and recounts the Confederacy's bold attempt to capture the Bluegrass State. In a narrative rich with quotations from the diaries, letters, and reminiscences of participants, James Lee McDonough brings to vigorous life an episode whose full significance has previously eluded students of the war. In February of 1862, the fall of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson near the Tennessee-Kentucky border forced a Confederate retreat into northern Alabama. After the Southern forces failed that spring at Shiloh to throw back the Federal advance, the controversial General Braxton Bragg, newly promoted by Jefferson Davis, launched a countermovement that would sweep eastward to Chattanooga and then northwest through Middle Tennessee. Capturing Kentucky became the ultimate goal, which, if achieved, would lend the war a different complexion indeed. Giving equal attention to the strategies of both sides, McDonough describes the ill-fated Union effort to capture Chattanooga with an advance through Alabama, the Confederate march across Tennessee, and the subsequent two-pronged invasion of Kentucky. He vividly recounts the fighting at Richmond, Munfordville, and Perryville, where the Confederate dream of controlling Kentucky finally ended. The first book-length study of this key campaign in the Western Theater, War in Kentucky not only demonstrates the extent of its importance but supports the case that 1862 should be considered the decisive year of the war. The author: James Lee McDonough, a native of Tennessee, is professor of history at Auburn University. Among his other books are Stones River Bloody Winter in Tennessee and Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin, which he co-wrote with Thomas L. Connelly. " |
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Confederate General Braxton Bragg | 5 |
Working on the Railroad | 30 |
Confederate General John Hunt Morgan | 56 |
God and Kentucky | 61 |
Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith | 66 |
Retreat to Nashville | 88 |
Tennessee River at the railroad crossing Bridgeport Alabama | 90 |
Union General George H Thomas | 105 |
Union Colonel John T Wilder | 177 |
Union General Jefferson C Davis | 194 |
Searching for Water | 201 |
Union General Alexander McCook | 205 |
Confederate General William J Hardee | 214 |
Union General William R Terrill | 238 |
A Ghastly Scene of Dead and Dying | 240 |
Looking East from Site of Parsons Guns toward Rebel Attackers | 246 |
A General Stampede to the Rear | 117 |
Kentucky River between Lexington and Richmond | 119 |
Mt Zion Christan Church | 130 |
Union General William Bull Nelson | 140 |
Louisville Nashville Train Crossing Bridge over Green River | 156 |
An Unauthorized and Injudicious Attack | 158 |
Monument to Colonel Robert A Smith | 166 |
Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner | 173 |
Line of Parsons Guns and Site of General Jacksons Death Marker | 252 |
Union General John C Starkweather | 274 |
Confederate General Joseph Wheeler | 288 |
Cemetery Where H P Bottom Buried Confederate Dead | 295 |
The Western Theater 13 | 306 |
Season of Folly Season of Decision | 315 |
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