Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones RiverBanners to the Breeze analyzes three major Civil War campaigns that were conducted following a series of devastating Confederate defeats at the hands of Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1862. After the recapture of Tennessee, Confederate armies under Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith conducted a brilliant advance into the deeply divided state of Kentucky. Meanwhile, other Confederate forces under Sterling Price and Earl Van Dorn attempted to recapture the town of Corinth, Mississippi. As the year drew to a close, Bragg’s army was involved in a tactical draw at the battle of Stones River. Earl J. Hess mixes dramatic narrative and new analysis as he brings these campaigns together in a coherent whole. Previously unpublished historic photographs of the battlefields are included. |
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Page 64
... railroad on a bit of high ground . A trench extended from the stockade southward for a few yards and then turned east to the railroad . It ran along the highest ground for at least a mile south of the river and thus had a good view of ...
... railroad on a bit of high ground . A trench extended from the stockade southward for a few yards and then turned east to the railroad . It ran along the highest ground for at least a mile south of the river and thus had a good view of ...
Page 65
... railroad , advancing over ground that rose toward the Union forti- fications above the level of the railroad . Shallow ravines drained eastward toward the railroad bed , some of them deep enough to hide a man . As the regiment came ...
... railroad , advancing over ground that rose toward the Union forti- fications above the level of the railroad . Shallow ravines drained eastward toward the railroad bed , some of them deep enough to hide a man . As the regiment came ...
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... railroad leading to Holly Springs . Van Dorn received word from Price two days later that his army was safe and ready to join his own . The two had earlier discussed the possibility of a rendezvous at Ripley , twenty - five miles west ...
... railroad leading to Holly Springs . Van Dorn received word from Price two days later that his army was safe and ready to join his own . The two had earlier discussed the possibility of a rendezvous at Ripley , twenty - five miles west ...
Contents
Bold Strike into the Bluegrass | 30 |
Bragg Buell and Kentucky | 56 |
Give Him Battle | 77 |
Copyright | |
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Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River Earl J. Hess Limited preview - 2000 |
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advance Army of Tennessee artillery attack Barboursville Bardstown Battery Robinett battle Battle of Iuka battlefield began Bluegrass Bragg Bragg's army Breckinridge Brig brigade Bryantsville Buell Buell's army campaign cavalry Chaplin River Chattanooga Cleburne Cleburne's command Corinth corps Creek crossed Cumberland Gap Cumberland Plateau Davies's Davis defensive deployed division Dorn Dorn's east Edmund Kirby Smith enemy Federal fighting fire force front Grant ground guns Halleck Hardee Harrodsburg Hébert Hill hundred yards infantry Iuka John Johnson Kentucky Lincoln Louisville McCook McCown's miles Mississippi Morgan mountains move Munfordville Murfreesboro Nashville Pike nearly night northward numbers October Ohio ordered Perryville Polk position Price pushed railroad rear Rebels regiments retreat Richmond ridge right flank right wing Road Rosecrans Rosecrans's sent September September 18 skirmishers Smith soldiers Southern Stones River strategic supplies Tennessee terrain thousand took town troops Union Unionists valley victory wagons Wilder woods wounded