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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs. Bentonville. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996 (OCoLC)604666981 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes |
| ISBN: | 0807822817 9780807822814 |
| OCLC Number: | 33863775 |
| Description: | xix, 336 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series Title: | Civil War America. |
| Responsibility: | Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. |
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Abstract:
Nathaniel Hughes offers a comprehensive tactical study of this important battle, which involved an unusually high percentage of senior officers. In careful detail, he lays out the movement of Confederate and Union troops from South Carolina across the state line to Fayetteville and on to Goldsboro. Placing the battle within the larger military framework of the last months of the war, Hughes analyzes why initial success turned to failure for Johnston's offensive.
Based on letters, diaries, and official documents, the book explores the experience of this final battle for the soldiers and officers fighting it. Hughes also assesses the performances of Union and Confederate commanders and includes biographical vignettes of several of them, including Braxton Bragg, William J. Hardee, D. H. Hill, Oliver O. Howard, and Henry W. Slocum.
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