Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign - William L. Shea torrent

Category: History, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: History Nonfiction

Written by William L. Shea
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

William Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events surrounding Prairie Grove, Arkansas, one of the great unsung battles of the Civil War that effectively ended Confederate offensive operations west of the Mississippi River. Shea provides a colorful account of a grueling campaign that lasted five months and covered hundreds of miles of rugged Ozark terrain. In a fascinating analysis of the personal, geographical, and strategic elements that led to the fateful clash in northwest Arkansas, he describes a campaign notable for rapid marching, bold movements, hard fighting, and the most remarkable raid of the Civil War.