Decisions at Perryville : the twenty-two critical decisions that defined the battle /
"The Battle of Perryville was the culmination of the Confederate Heartland Offensive as General Braxton Bragg's army won a strategic victory over Major General Don Carlos Buell's corps from the Union Army of the Ohio. However, as Bragg retreated into Tennessee shortly after the battle...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Knoxville :
The University of Tennessee Press,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Command decisions in America's Civil War
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.25814216 |
| Summary: | "The Battle of Perryville was the culmination of the Confederate Heartland Offensive as General Braxton Bragg's army won a strategic victory over Major General Don Carlos Buell's corps from the Union Army of the Ohio. However, as Bragg retreated into Tennessee shortly after the battle, he effectively granted control of Kentucky to the Union, and the North would hold this critical border state for the remainder of the American Civil War. In Decisions at Perryville, Larry Peterson examines the critical decisions that shaped the way the battle unfolded. Rather than offering a history of the battle, Peterson focuses on the critical decisions confronting Federal and Confederate leaders and ultimately shaping the battle as we know it today"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781621906810 1621906817 9781621906803 1621906809 9781621906797 |