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War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville
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by James Lee McDonough
Sales Rank: 1694238
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List Price: $34.00
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 386 pages
Published by: University of Tennessee PressEdition: 1st Edition December 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0870498479
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0870498473
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
From Library Journal
According to McDonough (Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy, Univ. of Tennessee Pr., 1984), the South's failure to bring Kentucky into the Confederacy gave the Union access to Kentucky's important railways and waterways, thus providing the Yankees with a back door to the South. He looks at Union General Buell, Confederate General Bragg, and their subordinates, detailing strengths and weaknesses on both sides. He leads the reader to wonder whether the Civil War was as much a conflict of egos and eccentricities as it was of tactics and strategy. McDonough writes an interesting account, especially when he crawls inside the heads of the major figures. Several maps are included, but more would have been welcome. Nevertheless, Civil War scholars, buffs, and informed lay readers will find this book a valuable addition to the literature. For academic libraries and public libraries with Civil War collections.
Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
By mid 1862, Union gains in the Mississippi Valley and in Tennessee and Kentucky had brought the Confederacy to a point of strategic crisis. This valuable addition to the growing literature on the Civil War in the West tells how the Union then failed to press home its advantage while the Confederacy failed to force Kentucky into the Confederacy. The climax of these events was the little-known Battle of Perryville, in which a greatly inferior Southern force under Braxton Bragg managed a draw against Don Carlos Buell's Union army but also effectively terminated the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. McDonough has researched thoroughly and written clearly, making this book informative and accessible to a wide range of Civil War students. Roland Green
Reader Reviews
"War in Kentucky" describes and interprets events in the western theater of the Civil War following the Battle of Shiloh through the end of Bragg's invasion of Kentucky. As an analysis of the complex strategic issues involved, the book is generally disappointing. The text is uneven in depth, and is broken by too many needless quotations from other secondary works. Though the big picture is weak, McDonough is at his best in describing events and conditions up close. For example, his chapter on the Federal occupation of Huntsville, Alabama, is fascinating. The book is very well illustrated, but inexcusably deficient in maps. "War in Kentucky" is recommended for those interested in the Kentucky campaign, but it is not in the same class as the works of Peter Cozzens, Wiley Sword, or Larry Daniel on similar topics.
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