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Publisher
WBIR-TV
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 51 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
"On November 16, 1863 there was no more important ground in the lives of nearly 20,000 Civil War soldiers than the land surrounding Campbell Station. Holding the crossroads near the way station would be critical to the success of both armies. The fighting took place on two fronts simultaneously. Two Medals of Honor would be awarded as the fighting culminated with a 6-hour battle that waged back and forth. Today, aside from an erroneous roadside marker,...
Publisher
WBIR-TV
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 47 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"War, our most destructive and tragic behavior, fascinates us. We cannot help but study it, and yet, remain seemingly unmoved by its consequences. Just as battle weary soldiers can become numb to their experience, later generations can lose perspective. The Heartland Series with Bill Landy looks at this phenomenon as it applies to the Civil War in East Tennessee. No part of the country was more bitterly divided than East Tennessee. The war separated...
Author
Publisher
The University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In June of 1863, Col. William P. Sanders led a cavalry raid of 1,300 men from the Union Army of the Ohio through Confederate-held East Tennessee. The raid's purpose was to sever the Confederate rail supply line from Virginia to the Western Theater, and Sanders and his raiders were largely successful. Brandes presents readers with the most complete account of the Sanders raid to date using Sanders's official reports, East Tennessee diaries and memoirs...
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