Product Description: During the summer of 1862, a Confederate resurgence threatened to turn the tide of the Civil War. When the Union’s earlier multitheater thrust into the South proved to be a strategic overreach, the Confederacy saw its chance to reverse the loss of the Upper South through counteroffensives from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi...read more

Product Description: To military aviators, "air superiority" is an unquestioned prerequisite for effective aerial operations. Stripped to its barest essentials, it has a deceptively simple definition. As the authoritative Department of Defense Diction of Military and Associated Terms declares: air superiority is "that degree of dominance in the air battle of one force over another which permits the conduct of operations by the former and its related land, sea, and air forces at a given time and place without prohibitive interference by the opposing force"...read more

Product Description: “Benjamin Franklin Cooling has produced a triumphant third volume to his definitive study of Tennessee and Kentucky in the Civil War. Like his first two volumes, this one perfectly integrates the home front and battlefield, demonstrating that civilians were continually embroiled in the war in intense ways comparable to and often surpassing the violence experienced by soldiers on the battlefield...read more

Product Description: Fort Donelsons 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...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Forts Henry and DonelsonAuthor: Cooling, Benjamin FranklinPublisher: Univ of Tennessee PrPublication Date: 2003/10/01Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress:

Recounts the efforts of Jubal Early, a Confederate general, to invade Washington, D.C., and analyses the unsuccessful campaign (view table of contents)

Product Description: Cooling, Benjamin Franklin; SYMBOL, SWORD, AND SHIELD; Defending Washington During the Civil War; White Mane Pub; 1991; 305 Pages;

Product Description: During the American Civil War, Washington, D.C. was the most heavily fortified city in North America. As President Abraham Lincoln's Capital, the city became the symbol of Union determination, as well as a target for Robert E. Lee's Confederates...read more

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