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Work for Giants: The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo/Harrisburg, Mississippi, June-July 1864 Audiobook by Thomas E. Parson
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Title: Work for Giants: The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo/Harrisburg, Mississippi, June-July 1864
Author: Thomas E. Parson
Narrator: Donnie Sipes
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-07-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
During the summer of 1864 a Union column, commanded by Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith, set out from Tennessee with a goal that had proven impossible in all prior attempts - to find and defeat the cavalry under the command of Confederate major general Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest's cavalry was the greatest threat to the long supply line feeding Sherman's armies as they advanced on Atlanta.
Smith marched at the head of his "gorillas", veteran soldiers who were fresh from the Red River Campaign. Aside from diverting Confederate attention away from Sherman, Smith's orders were to destroy Southern railroads and confront Forrest in Mississippi. Just weeks earlier, a similar Union expedition had met with disaster at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads, perhaps the greatest victory of Forrest's military career.
Joined by reinforcements led by Lt. Gen. Stephen Dill Lee, Forrest and his men were confident and their morale had never been higher. However, for two weeks, Smith outmarched, outfought, and outmaneuvered the team of Lee and Forrest. In three days of bitter fighting, culminating in the battle at Harrisburg, the Confederates suffered a staggering defeat. Forrest's corps was devastated. He and his men would recover but would never regain their earlier strength, nor would they ever again prove a serious threat to veteran Union infantry.
Work for Giants focuses on the details of this overlooked campaign and the efforts, post-battle and postwar, to minimize the outcome and consequences of an important Union victory. Parson draws heavily from previously untapped diaries, letters and journals, and eyewitness accounts, bringing to life the oppressive heat, cruel depredations, and brutal combat the soldiers encountered, and the stoic humor they used to endure them.
The book is published by The Kent State University Press.
Members Reviews:
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This book is excellent. It is both good, objective history and fun reading. An unbiased view of the Battle of Tupelo has long been needed. After Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Grant and Sherman, Nathan Bedford Forrest probably has more name recognition than any general in the Civil War. He has become an icon, especially in the South, west of the Appalachians. As such, he and his troopers have acquired a reputation as an invincible force. This battle between a detachment of troops and accompanying cavalry led by Union Gen. AJ Smith and Confederate Cavalry under the command of Gen. Stephen Lee with Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest leading the troopers during most of the action has been called a victory for the North, a victory for the South, or a draw depending on who is telling the story. This book presents the facts and draws a logical conclusion.
By June 1864 Mississippi was no longer the focus of the North's efforts. West of the Appalachians the major strategic goal of the Union Army was the capture of Atlanta, being undertaken by Gen. Sherman's command. The campaign that led to the battle of Tupelo was designed to keep the Confederate forces in Mississippi, especially those of Gen. Forrest, occupied so they would not be available for raids on General Sherman's vulnerable supply line that ran from Nashville through Chattanooga to Sherman's Army in Georgia. The destruction of Forrest's cavalry was a secondary goal.
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Title: Work for Giants: The Campaign and Battle of Tupelo/Harrisburg, Mississippi, June-July 1864
Author: Thomas E. Parson
Narrator: Donnie Sipes
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-07-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
During the summer of 1864 a Union column, commanded by Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith, set out from Tennessee with a goal that had proven impossible in all prior attempts - to find and defeat the cavalry under the command of Confederate major general Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest's cavalry was the greatest threat to the long supply line feeding Sherman's armies as they advanced on Atlanta.
Smith marched at the head of his "gorillas", veteran soldiers who were fresh from the Red River Campaign. Aside from diverting Confederate attention away from Sherman, Smith's orders were to destroy Southern railroads and confront Forrest in Mississippi. Just weeks earlier, a similar Union expedition had met with disaster at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads, perhaps the greatest victory of Forrest's military career.
Joined by reinforcements led by Lt. Gen. Stephen Dill Lee, Forrest and his men were confident and their morale had never been higher. However, for two weeks, Smith outmarched, outfought, and outmaneuvered the team of Lee and Forrest. In three days of bitter fighting, culminating in the battle at Harrisburg, the Confederates suffered a staggering defeat. Forrest's corps was devastated. He and his men would recover but would never regain their earlier strength, nor would they ever again prove a serious threat to veteran Union infantry.
Work for Giants focuses on the details of this overlooked campaign and the efforts, post-battle and postwar, to minimize the outcome and consequences of an important Union victory. Parson draws heavily from previously untapped diaries, letters and journals, and eyewitness accounts, bringing to life the oppressive heat, cruel depredations, and brutal combat the soldiers encountered, and the stoic humor they used to endure them.
The book is published by The Kent State University Press.
Members Reviews:
Faceoff
This book is excellent. It is both good, objective history and fun reading. An unbiased view of the Battle of Tupelo has long been needed. After Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Grant and Sherman, Nathan Bedford Forrest probably has more name recognition than any general in the Civil War. He has become an icon, especially in the South, west of the Appalachians. As such, he and his troopers have acquired a reputation as an invincible force. This battle between a detachment of troops and accompanying cavalry led by Union Gen. AJ Smith and Confederate Cavalry under the command of Gen. Stephen Lee with Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest leading the troopers during most of the action has been called a victory for the North, a victory for the South, or a draw depending on who is telling the story. This book presents the facts and draws a logical conclusion.
By June 1864 Mississippi was no longer the focus of the North's efforts. West of the Appalachians the major strategic goal of the Union Army was the capture of Atlanta, being undertaken by Gen. Sherman's command. The campaign that led to the battle of Tupelo was designed to keep the Confederate forces in Mississippi, especially those of Gen. Forrest, occupied so they would not be available for raids on General Sherman's vulnerable supply line that ran from Nashville through Chattanooga to Sherman's Army in Georgia. The destruction of Forrest's cavalry was a secondary goal.