Stones River: Bloody Winter in Tennessee

By James Lee McDonough

Book Overview

On December 31, 1862, some ten thousand Confederate soldiers streamed out of the dim light of early morning to stun the Federals who were still breakfasting in their camp. Nine months earlier the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870493019
• ISBN13: 9780870493010
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"

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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.