Böcker av Larry J. Daniel

"While the role of engineers in the Civil War was critical to the success or failure of both armies, historians have until now not comprehensively examined the role of Confederate engineers in the western theater of the war. Larry J. Daniel's Engineering in the Confederate Heartland fills a gap in that historiography by analyzing the lives and accomplishments of professionally trained and novice engineers working for the Confederacy in the 175,000 square miles between the Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River, commonly referred to as the western theater of the war. Daniel's engrossing examination of Confederate engineers in the West is bound to be of widespread interest to both Civil War scholars and enthusiasts"--

Three days of savage and bloody fighting between Confederate and Union troops at Stones River in Middle Tennessee ended with nearly 25,000 casualties but no clear victor. Using previously neglected sources, Larry Daniel rescues this important campaign from obscurity.

Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But it won few major battles and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances as a matter of failed leadership. Military historian Larry Daniel here offers a far richer interpretation.

Offers a view from the trenches of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. This book is not the story of the commanders, but rather shows in intimate detail what the war in the western theatre was like for the enlisted men. Larry Daniel argues that the unity of the Army of Tennessee can be understood only by viewing the army from the bottom up rather than the top down.