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Two Good Books on Prairie Grove…And a Wargame

December 7th, 2012 · 2 Comments

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 […]

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Categories: 150 Years Ago in the Civil War · Best Civil War Books · Campaigns & Battles · Civil War Books · Military History

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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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Categories: Best of TOCWOC - 2006 · Best of TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog · Civil War Book Reviews · Civil War Books

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