Dan Lee

The Civil War in the Jackson Purchase, 1861-1862

The Pro-Confederate Struggle and Defeat in Southwest Kentucky

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Jackson Purchase is the far western section of Kentucky. In 1861, it was a rich agricultural and iron producing region. It also controlled the mouths of the Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee rivers, as well as that middle stretch of the mighty Mississippi where it transitions from a northern to a southern river. The Purchase was the riverine gateway to the Deep South. The obvious military importance of the region caused both the Federal and Confederate governments to pour material resources and military talent into the Purchase in an effort to hold it and defend it against the incursions of their enemies. The Jackson Purchase was the Civil War training ground of such army officers as U.S. Grant, C.F. Smith, Leonidas Polk, Lloyd Tilghman, and the navy's own Andrew H. Foote, commander of the Federal ""Brown Water Navy."" Four major amphibious battles were fought for control of the area: Columbus-Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and Island Number Ten. This book tells the story of the bloody years 1861 and 1862 and the tense, contested Union occupation that followed in the region known as ""The South Carolina of Kentucky.""

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780786477821
• ISBN-10: 0786477822
• Artikelnr.: 38477311

Autorenporträt

Dan Lee has degrees in history from Murray State University and Western Kentucky University. He lives in Hardin County, Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: The Antebellum Jackson Purchase (1820-1860)
1. The Secession Crisis (November 1860-August 1861)
2. The Federals and the Confederates Make Their Opening Moves (April-August
1861)
3. Stalemate (August-September 1861)
4. Invasions (September 1861)
5. Columbus (September-October 1861)
6. The Battle of Columbus-Belmont (November 1861)
7. With General C.F. Smith in Paducah (November-December 1861)
8. Grant and Polk After the Battle of Columbus-Belmont (November-December
1861)
9. The Federal Expedition ( January 1862)
10. The Attack on Fort Henry and Fort Heiman (February 1862)
11. Between Two Battles (February 1862)
12. The Battle of Fort Donelson (February 1862)
13. The Surrender of Fort Donelson (February 1862)
14. Reconnoiters and Evacuations (February-March 1862)
15. Island Number Ten (March-April 1862)
16. Rebel Incursions and Yankee Injustices (1862-1865)
Afterword
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index