Civil War America: Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It (Paperback)

from jcbrunner

The battle of Wilson's Creek was one of the first US civil war battles I heard about and it remains one of my favourites with its flavour of generals and soldiers of variable capability and high-minded battle plans that end in a free-for-all. So I was exited to learn about this battle study. Unfo...

from charbonn

This is a battle history in which the history of the battle takes up considerably less than half the book (chapters 13 through 17, pages 192-286). The rest of the book tells the story of "the men who fought it," with particular emphasis on the fact that the primary identification of those men was...

from charbonn

This is a battle history in which the history of the battle takes up considerably less than half the book (chapters 13 through 17, pages 192-286). The rest of the book tells the story of "the men who fought it," with particular emphasis on the fact that the primary identification of those men was...