Brief description:
On the eve of battle, while the bands of both armies play Home Sweet
Home, eighty thousand men join in singing. At dawn, they will set about
killing each other. Five days after Christmas, 1862, in the damp and cold
outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the men of General William S. Rosecrans’s Army of the Cumberland face the Confederate soldiers of General Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee.
The Battle of Stones Riverwill last three days. The savage fighting, across the fields and woods of Tennessee, will awaken the best in some men—courage, self-sacrifice, and honor; the worst in others—cruelty, cowardice, depravity. This is the story of those hours and the men who went forth.
Home, eighty thousand men join in singing. At dawn, they will set about
killing each other. Five days after Christmas, 1862, in the damp and cold
outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the men of General William S. Rosecrans’s Army of the Cumberland face the Confederate soldiers of General Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee.
The Battle of Stones Riverwill last three days. The savage fighting, across the fields and woods of Tennessee, will awaken the best in some men—courage, self-sacrifice, and honor; the worst in others—cruelty, cowardice, depravity. This is the story of those hours and the men who went forth.
Publication
Soho Press (2004), Edition: No Edition Stated, 488 pages
Collection
Physical description
9 inches