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Border Wars : The Civil War in Tennessee and Kentucky /

Kentucky and Tennessee share a unique and similar history, having joined the Union as the fifteenth and sixteenth states in 1792 and 1796, respectively. During the antebellum period, Kentuckians and Tennesseans enjoyed a common culture, pursued a largely agricultural way of life, and shared many val...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Dollar, Kent T., Whiteaker, Larry H. (Larry Howard), 1946-, Dickinson, W. Calvin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Kent T. Dollar and Larry H. Whiteaker
  • Part I. Battles, skirmishes, and soldiers
  • The militia spirit: Lexington and Clarksville militias and the making of Civil War armies / Aaron Astor
  • Descent into anarchy: the evolution of irregular warfare in the lower Green River country of Kentucky / Scott A. Tarnowieckyi
  • The 1861 campaign to liberate East Tennessee / Michael Toomey
  • Guerrilla warfare and federal occupation in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky, 1862-1864 / Patricia A. Hoskins
  • Our friends, the enemy: federal occupation and the unionist regiments of middle and west Tennessee / Derek W. Frisby
  • Franklin: the thunder drum of war / Wiley Sword
  • Part II. Leaders
  • Reconsidering Felix Zollicoffer: the influence of weather and terrain in the rise and fall of a military commander in Appalachia / Brian D. McKnight
  • Don Carlos Buell: misunderstood commander of the west / Stephen D. Engle
  • Braxton Bragg and the Stones River Campaign / Earl J. Hess
  • Mutual antagonists: Braxton Bragg, Frank Cheatham, and the Army of Tennessee / Christopher Losson
  • Grant and Forrest: the command value of calluses / Jack Hurst
  • "A fighting governor": Isham G. Harris and the Army of Tennessee / Sam Davis Elliott
  • Revisiting the heartland from war to reconstruction: an afterword / Benjamin Franklin Cooling.