ISBN10: 0870493736, ISBN13: 9780870493737, [publisher: University of Tennessee Press] Softcover New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1983]

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ISBN10: 0870493736, ISBN13: 9780870493737, [publisher: University of Tennessee Press, Chicago] Softcover Paperback. On December 31, 1862, some 10,000 Confederate soldiers streamed out of the dim light of early morning to stun the Federals who were still breakfasting in their camp. Nine months earlier the Confederates had charged the Yankees in a similarly devastating attack at dawn, starting the Battle of Shiloh. By the time this new battle ended, it would resemble Shiloh in other ways it would rival that struggles shocking casualty toll of 24,000 and it would become a major defeat for the South. By any Civil War standard, Stones River was a monumental, bloody, and dramatic story. Yet, until now, it has had no modern, documented history. Arguing that the battle was one of the significant engagements in the war, noted Civil War historian James Lee McDonough here devotes to Stones River the attention it ahs long deserved.Stones River, at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was the first big battle in the union campaign to seize the Nashville-Chattanooga-Atlanta corridor. Driving eastward and southward to sea, the campaign eventually climaxed in Shermans capture of Savannah in December 1864. At Stones River the two armies were struggling desperately for control of Middle Tennessees railroads and rich farms. Although they fought to a tactical draw, the Confederates retreated.The battles outcome held significant implications. For the Union, the victory helped offset the disasters ...
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Univ of Tennessee Pr, Date: 1983. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 286 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. 1983. Univ of Tennessee Pr ISBN 0870493736 9780870493737 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0870493736, ISBN13: 9780870493737, [publisher: University of Tennessee Press] Softcover
[Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1983]

Univ of Tennessee Pr 1983 Softcover New 1st edition. 286 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.