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Fort Donelson's Legacy - War and Society in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862-1863 (Paperback)
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Fort Donelson's Legacy - War and Society in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862-1863 (Paperback)
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Fort Donelson's Legacy portrays the tapestry of war and society in
the upper southern heartland of Tennessee and Kentucky after the
key Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862.
Those victories, notes Benjamin Franklin Cooling, could have
delivered the decisive blow to the Confederacy in the West and
ended the war in that theater. Instead, what followed was terrible
devastation and bloodshed that embroiled soldier and civilian
alike. Cooling compellingly describes a struggle that was marked
not only by the movement of armies and the strategies of generals
but also by the rise of guerrilla bands and civil resistance. It
was, in part, a war fought for geography-for rivers and railroads
and for strategic cities such as Nashville, Louisville, and
Chattanooga. But it was also a war for the hearts and minds of the
populace. "Stubborn civilian opposition to Union invaders," Cooling
writes, "prompted oppressive military occupation, subversion of
civil liberties, and confiscation of personal property in the name
of allegiance to the United States-or to the Confederacy, for that
matter, since some Unionist southerners resented Confederate
intrusion fully as much as their secessionist neighbors opposed
Yankee government." In exploring the complex terrain of "total war"
that steadily engulfed Tennessee and Kentucky, Cooling draws on a
huge array of sources, including official military records and
countless diaries and memoirs. He makes considerable use of the
words of participants to capture the attitudes and concerns of
those on both sides. The result is a masterful addition to Civil
War literature that integrates the military, social, political, and
economic aspects of the conflict into a large and endlessly
fascinating picture.
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