Tag Archives: Sterling Price
Darkest Days of the War?
The Battles of Iuka and Corinth–that’s the answer, at least according to historian Peter Cozzens. Do you agree? Disagree? When I started the book, I was sketpical that Cozzens could convince me that this was truly the “Darkest Days of … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Battle of Corinth, Battle of Iuka, Braxton Bragg, Corinth, Don Carlos Buell, Earl Van Dorn, Mississippi, Sterling Price, Tennessee, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, Western theater, William Rosecrans, William T. Sherman
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Civil War on the Frontier: An Introduction to the Trans-Mississippi
The four fiery years of the Civil War excite the minds of Americans unlike most historical topics. Indeed, the epic saga of the Civil War is one of the most written about and discussed events in American history. The field … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Memory
Tagged Arkansas, California, Centenary College of Louisiana, Colorado, Edward R. S. Canby, Franz Sigel, Henry H. Sibley, Indian Territory, John Magruder, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nathaniel P. Banks, New Mexico Territory, Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Red River, Red River Campaign, Richard Taylor, Samuel Ryan Curtis, Stand Watie, Sterling Price, Texas, Trans-Mississippi, William B. Franklin, Wilson's Creek
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