Just as quickly, the blue soldiers outlined on the hill received a volley from Hanley's field pieces, felled by rounds of case-shot exploding a foot or so above the crown of the hill. The Yankees withdrew to the back of the hill seeking ...
THE SAGA CONTINUESPerryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862.
THE SAGA CONINUES.
Sergeant Fitzgibbons, lying nearby shot and dying, cried out, “Never mind me! Where is the flag? Where is it? For God's sake save the flag!” The colonel, sprawled upon that blood soaked field as well, began searching frantically, ...
Kentucky never more deserved its Indian appellation A Dark and Bloody Ground than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August...
The book examines uncertainty of command at the army, corps, and division levels and emphasizes the confusion and fear of ground combat at the level of company and battalion - "where they do the dying.
Full of colorful characters and desperate deeds, A Dark and Bloody Ground is a “first-rate” true crime chronicle from the author of Murder in Little Egypt (Kirkus Reviews). “An arresting look into the troubled psyches of these ...
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation "A Dark and Bloody Ground" more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, called in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985.
This critically acclaimed author of Murder in Little Egypt delivers the riveting true crime expose of an Appalachian gang's crime spree.
This novel for the first time brings to life such historical figures as George Thomas, Leonidas Polk, Phil Sheridan and Patrick Cleburne, to name but a few.