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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cozzens, Peter, 1957- Darkest days of the war. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997 (OCoLC)606142490 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Cozzens |
| ISBN: | 0807823201 9780807823200 9780807857830 0807857831 |
| OCLC Number: | 34984056 |
| Description: | xvi, 390 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Six and a half feet of Missouri soil -- Fifth wheel to a coach -- The darkest days of the war -- This will be our opportunity -- Things were beginning to wear a threatening aspect -- Let us do all we can -- Their delay was our salvation -- Like lightning from a clear sky -- Night quickly set in -- We'll I-uker them today! -- Where, in the name of God, is Grant? -- A pursuit can amount to little -- We had better lay down our arms and go home -- More trouble than we could care for -- Well, boys, you did that handsomely -- They ran like hens -- I bid them all good bye -- No time to cool off now -- The men would do all they could -- Death came in a hundred shapes -- My God! My boys are running! -- We must push them -- I never saw such slaughter -- Van Dorn has done it, sure enough -- The best we had in the ranch -- The reckoning -- Appendix: The opposing forces in the Battles of Iuka, Corinth, and Davis Bridge. |
| Series Title: | Civil War America. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Cozzens. |
Abstract:
Peter Cozzens here presents the first book-length study of the battles of Iuka and Corinth. Fought under brutal conditions and resulting in extremely heavy casualties relative to the numbers engaged - at Iuka, nearly one-third of those engaged fell - Iuka and Corinth proved to be two of the most vicious battles of the war. Drawing on extensive primary research, Cozzens details the tactical aspects of each battle, analyzing troop movements down to the regimental level.
In addition to a vivid and detailed battle narrative, Cozzens provides compelling portraits of the campaign's key leaders: Generals Grant, Rosecrans, Van Dorn, and Price. He exposes the consequences of their clashing ambitions and antipathies. Finally, Cozzens analyzes the larger, strategic implications of the northern Mississippi campaign, exploring the repercussions of the Confederate defeats suffered at Iuka and Corinth.
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- Iuka (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1862.
- Corinth, Battle of, Corinth, Miss., 1862.
- Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.
- United States. -- Army -- Drill and tactics -- History -- 19th century.
- Confederate States of America. -- Army -- Drill and tactics.
- Veldslagen.
- Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
- Iuka (Miss.) -- Belagerung
- Corinth (Miss.) -- Schlacht
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