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Title: Stones River: Bloody Winter in Tennessee by James L. McDonough ISBN: 0-87049-373-6 Publisher: University of Tennessee Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but definitely could have been better......
Comment: I want to start off by saying that I certainly enjoyed this book, but it could have been better. I'll start off with the positive first.
As in all of his book, McDonough writes very well in this book. I found myself gliding through the pages. But now for the bad.
I consider good maps almost essential to a great military history; I will not consider a book worth five starts if maps are nonexistant or are not good. The maps in this book are few, and, well, bad. The few provided are small and hard to read.
I also found myself wanting to learn more of the details. As are McDonough's other books, this one is not very detailed.
These reservations put aside, I would recommend this book to any Civil War or military history buff. But, if these problems bother you too much, I would recommend this book for only "hardcore" Civil War buffs, or those specifically interested in the Murfreesboro (or Stones River) Campaign.
Rating: 4
Summary: Bar Room Brawl!
Comment: This bloody Murfreesboro, Tennessee battle became a turning point in the central theater of the Civil War. Starting with a Confederate surprise attack, 24,000 casualties would be inflicted on both sides before the Union army would awake to find the Confederate army having deserted the field three days later. Fought by two mediocre generals, Braxton Bragg and William S. Rosecrans, this engagement was intense and ugly. Once begun, there was little strategy involved. The opposing armies simply mauled each other.
Stones River was the first major battle in the Union's plan to seize the Nashville-Chattanooga-Atlanta corridor. Claimed by many to be a tactical draw, it was a Southern defeat of the worst sort. The South lost control of an invaluable asset, middle Tennessee's railroads. It is from this spring board that Union armies once again sliced the Confederacy in two.
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Title: Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin by James L. McDonough, Thomas Connelly ISBN: 0870493973 Publisher: University of Tennessee Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865 by Thomas Lawerence Connelly ISBN: 0807127388 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River (Civil War Trilogy) by Peter Cozzens ISBN: 0252062299 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Mountains Touched With Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863 by Wiley Sword ISBN: 031215593X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Shiloh, in Hell Before Night by James L., McDonough ISBN: 0870492322 Publisher: University of Tennessee Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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