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  • Tullahoma

    The Forgotten Campaign that changed the Civil War, June 23–July 4, 1863

    by David A. Powell, Eric J. Wittenberg ...
    "The definitive account of Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans' operational masterpiece—the almost bloodless conquest . . . of Middle Tennessee." —Sam Davis Elliott, author of Soldier of TennesseeJuly 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the South. Sandwiched geographically between those victories and lost in the heady ... Read more

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  • The Atlanta Campaign

    Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864

    by David A. Powell ...
    The Atlanta Campaign sheds light on the overlooked 1864 campaign in Georgia, detailing the strategic maneuvers and battles between Sherman and Johnston. For scope, drama, and importance, the Atlanta Campaign was second only to Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia. Despite its criticality and massive array of primary source material, it has lingered in the shadows of other campaigns and ... Read more

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  • The Atlanta Campaign

    Volume 2: From the Etowah River to Kennesaw Mountain, May 20 to June 27, 1864

    by David A. Powell ...
    Details Sherman’s grueling advance from the Etowah River to Kennesaw Mountain during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign.The scope, drama, and importance of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign was on a par with Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in Virginia. Despite its criticality and massive array of primary source material, the operations in North Georgia have lingered in the shadows. Award-winning author David ... Read more

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  • The Atlanta Campaign, 1864: Sherman's Campaign to the Outskirts of Atlanta

    by David A. Powell ...
    A fully illustrated narrative of the Atlanta campaign complete with maps, illustrations, and diagrams. The campaign for Atlanta was pivotal to the outcome of the American Civil War. Roughly 190,000 men waged war across northern Georgia in a struggle that lasted 133 days. Today a national park at Kennesaw commemorates this titanic fight, and there are a surprising number of physical reminders still ... Read more

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  • The Atlanta Campaign, 1864: Peach Tree Creek to the Fall of the City

    by David A. Powell ...
    A fully illustrated narrative of the Atlanta campaign complete with maps, illustrations, and diagrams. General John Bell Hood's tenure commanding the Confederate Army of Tennessee stood in marked contrast to that of his predecessor Joseph E. Johnston. Where Johnston was forced to conduct a war of maneuver, parrying William T. Sherman's repeated flanking attempts, he rarely risked offensive blows. ... Read more

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  • The Chickamauga Campaign

    Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863

    by David A. Powell ...
    Winner of the Laney Book Prize from the Austin Civil War Round Table: "The post-battle coverage is simply unprecedented among prior Chickamauga studies." —James A. Hessler, award-winning author of Sickles at GettysburgThis third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign trilogy, a comprehensive examination of one of the most important and complex military operations of the ... Read more

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  • Failure in the Saddle

    Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign

    by David A. Powell ...
    An award–winning, "deeply researched and thoroughly analyzed" account of the Confederate cavalry's mistakes that turned Chickamauga into a Pyrrhic victory (Eric J. Wittenberg, award-winning author of The Battle of Brandy Station).Tales of the Confederate cavalry's raids and daring exploits create a whiff of lingering romance about the horse soldiers of the Lost Cause. Sometimes, however, romance ... Read more

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  • The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle

    From the Crossing of Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22–September 19, 1863

    by David A. Powell ...
    "Far surpasses anything anyone else has ever done about this pivotal engagement." — The Journal of America's Military PastChickamauga, according to soldier rumor, is a Cherokee word meaning "River of Death." It certainly lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged bloody combat along the banks of West Chickamauga ... Read more

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  • The Chickamauga Campaign: Glory or the Grave

    The Breakthrough, Union Collapse, and the Retreat to Chattanooga, September 20–23, 1863

    by David A. Powell ...
    The second volume in a three-volume study of this overlooked and largely misunderstood campaign of the American Civil War.According to soldier rumor, Chickamauga in Cherokee meant "River of Death." The name lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged a sprawling bloody combat along the banks of West Chickamauga ... Read more

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  • From Camp Douglas to Vicksburg

    The Civil War Letters of William J. Kennedy, 55th Illinois Infantry, 1861-1863

    Edited by Rachael E. Mellen, David A. Powell ...
    Wars change the course of history and touch in intensely personal ways the lives of everyone involved. Thankfully, surviving firsthand accounts offer modern readers a deeply personal window into earlier times. From Camp Douglas to Vicksburg: The Civil War Letters of William J. Kennedy, 55th Illinois Infantry, 1861-1863, edited and annotated by Rachael E. Mellen and David A. Powell, constitutes a ... Read more

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  • Outwitting Forrest

    The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22 - July 23, 1864

    by Edwin C. Bearss ...
    Series series Savas Beatie Battles & Leaders Series
    Few students of the Civil War know that legendary historian Edwin C. Bearss produced a classic study on the little-known but significant Tupelo Campaign. The fighting in Mississippi was overshadowed by Nathan Bedford Forrest’s more spectacular victory at Brice’s Crossroads a month earlier. Bearss performed the research and writing for the Department of the Interior in 1969, and only a handful of ... Read more

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  • Man of Fire

    William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War

    by Derek D. Maxfield ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    He has been accused of "studied and ingenious cruelty." By turns, he has been called a savior and a barbarian, a hero and a villain, a genius and a madman. But whatever you call William Tecumseh Sherman, you must admit he is utterly fascinating. Sherman spent a lifetime in search of who he was, striving to find a place and a calling. Informally adopted by the Ewing family of Lancaster, Ohio, when ... Read more

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