
Fields of Blood
The Prairie Grove Campaign
William L. Shea(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 30. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
760 pages
978-0-8078-6602-3 (ISBN)
Description
This title presents a detailed examination of the battle's tactical and strategic elements. On Sunday, December 7, 1862, two armies collided at an obscure Arkansas hamlet named Prairie Grove in a desperate battle that effectively ended Confederate offensive operations west of the Mississippi River. In ""Fields of Blood"", historian William L. Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events surrounding Prairie Grove, one of the great unsung battles of the Civil War. Shea provides a colorful account of a grueling campaign that lasted five months and covered hundreds of miles of rugged Ozark terrain. In a fascinating analysis of the personal, geographical, and strategic elements that led to the fateful clash in northwest Arkansas, he describes a campaign notable for rapid marching, bold movements, hard fighting, and the most remarkable raid of the Civil War. After months of intricate maneuvering punctuated by five battles in three states, armies led by Thomas C. Hindman and James G. Blunt met one last time at Prairie Grove. The costly daylong struggle was a tactical draw but a key strategic victory for the Union, as the Confederates never again seriously attempted to recover Missouri or threaten Kansas. Historians have long ignored the complex campaign that ended in such spectacular fashion at Prairie Grove, but it is at last brought to life in these pages.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1, black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
1402 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8078-6602-3 (9780807866023)
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11/2009
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WILLIAM L. SHEA is professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He is coauthor of several books, including Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West (UNC Press) and Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River.