Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River

by Earl J. Hess

Book Overview

Banners to the Breeze analyzes three major Civil War campaigns that were conducted following a series of devastating Confederate defeats at the hands of Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1862. After the recapture of Tennessee, Confederate armies under Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith conducted a brilliant advance into the deeply divided state of Kentucky. Meanwhile, other Confederate forces under Sterling Price and Earl Van Dorn attempted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803232713
• ISBN13: 9780803232716
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"