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“[An] exciting read . . . [Jeff] Shaara returns to the U.S. Civil War in this first book of a new trilogy. . . . This novel is meticulously researched and brings a vivid reality to the historical events depicted.”—Library Journal
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Spring 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse. General Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to abandon...
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Spring 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse. General Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to abandon...
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This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where more than 1,000 were laid to rest.
5) 2013 Tennessee Civil War sesquicentennial: Occupation and liberation, Oct. 9-12, 2013, Chattanooga
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Nashville Public Television, Inc.?]
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2013
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English
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Presents events from the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial signature event "Occupation and Liberation" OCt. 9-12, 2013 in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Tennessee Historical Commission
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2006
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English
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This sourcebook aims at chronicling the military, economic, social and political history associated with the Civil War as it happened in Tennessee. It provides a very broad view of life and events transpiring within Tennessee from January 1861 through September 1865. The sources consulted were diaries, period newspapers, official Civil War records, diaries, ship deck logs, letters, and historical articles. There are well over 7,000 entries in this...