This isn't an ordinary Civil War tale. It is the all-true but
little-known story of Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson-Kentucky legend,
Texas hero, and Confederate cavalry officer-who boldly led the
first Confederate raid across the Mason-Dixon Line to capture the
thriving river-port community of Newburgh, Indiana, during the
American Civil War. Not a shot was fired.
With the politically divided landscape of Civil War Kentucky and
the steamboat economy of the Ohio River as its backdrop, this is
the historically accurate account of surprise nocturnal strikes,
opportunistic military occupations, and a swashbuckling Rebel
icon's daring daylight invasion into the Northern homeland that
sealed the fate of western Kentucky for the remainder of the
war.
Vivid, thorough, and painstakingly researched, "Thunder from a
Clear Sky" documents five critical weeks of 1862 Civil War history
and shares the untold tale of one man's immeasurable impact on a
nation at war.
"A fascinating account of how a skilled former Indian fighter
gathered a few Kentucky rebels and 'woke up' the slumbering Indiana
Home Guard."
-"Evansville Courier & Press Book Reviews"
"An important and, until now, largely neglected story about the
American Civil War... "Thunder from a Clear Sky" stands as a fresh
and important contribution in a field long studied."-Professor
Randy K. Mills, Ph.D., Oakland City University, author of "Jonathan
Jennings: Indiana's First Governor "
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