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
Review: Embattled Arkansas by Michael Banasik
July 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Books on the Prairie Grove Campaign Embattled Arkansas: The Prairie Grove Campaign of 1862. Michael E. Banasik. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company (1998). 580 pp. 30 maps. The extended title of Michael Banasik’s Embattled Arkansas: The Prairie Grove Campaign of 1862 is misleading, but in a very good way. The author does not just cover […]
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Tags: · embattled arkansas, michael e. banasik, The Prairie Grove Campaign of 1862
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