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Outwitting Forrest - The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22 - July 23, 1864 (Hardcover)
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Outwitting Forrest - The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22 - July 23, 1864 (Hardcover)
Series: Savas Beatie Battles & Leaders Series
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Loot Price R588
Discovery Miles 5 880
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Few students of the Civil War know that legendary historian Edwin
C. Bearss produced a classic study on the little-known but
significant Tupelo Campaign. The fighting in Mississippi has been
overshadowed by Nathan Bedford Forrest’s more spectacular victory
at Brice’s Crossroads a month earlier. Bearss performed the
research and writing for the Department of the Interior in 1969,
and only a handful of softcover copies were produced and
circulated. It is published here for the first time, with the
assistance of award-winning author David A. Powell, as Outwitting
Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22 - July 23,
1864 . The engagement came about when Maj. Gen. A. J. Smith marched
a Federal expeditionary force consisting of his 16th Army Corps
into northern Mississippi in early July. The thrust forced a
response, the largest of which was delivered by the combined
Confederate cavalry commands of Stephen D. Lee (who was in general
command) and Forrest. The tactical result was a Union defensive
success. The larger Confederate strategic play, however—one that
might have changed the course of the war in the Western
Theater—would have been to unleash Forrest on a raid into Middle
Tennessee to destroy the single line of railroad track feeding and
suppling the Union armies of William T. Sherman in his ongoing
operations around Atlanta. Instead, his men were contained with the
Magnolia State, where his combat effectiveness was severely
damaged. Editor Powell has left Bearss’ prose and notes intact,
while adding additional sources and commentary of his own. The
result is an exceptional study that has finally been made available
to the general reading public as part of the Savas Beatie Battles
& Leaders Series.
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