US Civil War
Confederate enterprise, energy, and expectation were at the zenith in 1862. No other year saw the South with so promising prospects, with plans of campaign so bold, with such resources, both latent and developed. Her armies were at their fullest strength, for the flower of her...
The armies that were soon to measure strength in Middle Tennessee were not strangers. They had raced with each other to the banks of the Ohio in the previous fall, they had conf...
4. Chapter 4Crittenden's corps on the left of the Army of the Cumberland,--which had been selected by Rosecrans to make the initial move in the fight,--was separated from Breckenridge's ent...
2. Chapter 2The outbreak of hostilities between the North and the South was greeted with obvious delight by the majority of public journals, and with thinly veiled satisfaction by many of t...
1. Chapter 1Confederate enterprise, energy, and expectation were at the zenith in 1862. No other year saw the South with so promising prospects, with plans of campaign so bold, with such re...
7. Chapter 7The Battle of Stone's River produced profound disappointment both in the North and in the South. Claimed as a victory by both sides, the first fruits fell to the Army of the Cum...
6. Chapter 6For the greater part of the next day the two armies, merely rested on their arms. With food and rest, the feeling of confidence, which had been somewhat shaken in the Union Army...
5. Chapter 5The dusk of the short winter's day had already come on when the last desperate charges of the Confederate hosts were repelled. As though by common consent, the firing ceased alm...
8. Chapter 8subterfuge; and not unlikely he considered it a confession of weakness on our right and formed his own plans accordingly."--"The Murfreesboro Campaign," Otis; Boston. Papers of...