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For those of us with Civil War interests, December 7 also conjures up images of the greatest single march in the entire Civil War, and it didn’t involve Jackson’s foot cavalry. Instead, it was Herron’s Union forces trying to reach an overexposed Blunt who marched 120 or so miles in frigid December temperatures. The result […]
Two Good Books on Prairie Grove…And a Wargame
December 7th, 2012 · 2 Comments
Categories: 150 Years Ago in the Civil War · Best Civil War Books · Campaigns & Battles · Civil War Books · Military History
Tags: · battle of prairie grove, december 7 1862, earl j. hess, embattled arkansas, fields of blood, michael e. banasik, the university of north carolina press
Reading the War, December 1862
December 4th, 2012 · 3 Comments
Reading the War December 1862 We do not have many books from Antietam to Gettysburg. I have no idea why but it is a fact we have to accept. Compounding the problem is that several books are out of date or just plain bad. My recommendations are: The Fredericksburg Campaign by Francis Augustin O’Reilly is […]
Categories: 150 Years Ago in the Civil War · Civil War Books · James Durney's Book Notes
Tags: · battle of fredericksburg, battle of murfreesboro, battle of prairie grove, battle of stones river, december 13 1862, december 31 1862, december 7 1862, january 2 1863
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