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Confederate Heartland Campaign Map
American Civil War
June to October 1862

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Decision in the Heartland The Civil War in the West The western campaigns cost the Confederacy vast territories, the manufacturing of Nashville, the financial center of New Orleans, communication hub Corinth, Chattanooga, and Atlanta, along with the breadbasket of the Confederacy.

The United States Historical War Map, c.1862 48 in. x 47 in. $169.99 Buy at AllPosters.com Framed

Battles of the 1862 Campaign Chattanooga Tennessee June 7-8 Murfreesboro Tennessee July 13 Richmond Kentucky August 29-30 Munfordville Kentucky September 14-17 Iuka Mississippi September 19 Corinth Mississippi October 3-4 Perryville Kentucky October 8 American Civil War Book Titles The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga All the information you need to understand the flow of the battle at Chattanooga as well as the political intriguing that helped to shape the results is here War in Kentucky From Shiloh to Perryville Union gains in the Mississippi Valley and in Tennessee and Kentucky had brought the Confederacy to a point of crisis. This addition to the literature on the Civil War in the West tells how the Union then failed to press home its advantage while the Confederacy failed to force Kentucky into the Confederacy The Darkest Days of the War The Battles of Iuka and Corinth The strategic implications of the battles of Iuka and Corinth, exploring their impact on the fate of the Northern Mississippi Campaign, the fall of Vicksburg and by extension, the fate of the Confederacy. Kindle Available Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle On October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed near Perryville, Kentucky, in what would be the largest battle ever fought on Kentucky soil. Developments between the Battle of Shiloh and the Confederate Invasion of Kentucky Click to enlarge map

Kindle Available Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 The Battle of Shiloh was one of the most critical battles in American History. Some of the biggest figures of the Civil War - Grant, Sherman, Johnston, Bragg, Beauregard, Buell - all fought there. Grant would write in his memoirs, before Shiloh, Americans on both sides of the Mason Dixon line believed that the war could still be a short affair.

Campaigns of the Civil War Civil War Exhibits Timeline of the War State Battle Maps Civil War Navy Ships Civil War Summary Civil War Picture Album Women of the Civil War Confederate Commanders Union Generals Civil War Submarines

72 Piece Civil War Army Men Play Set 52mm Union and Confederate Figures, Bridge, Horses, Canon 48 Union and Confederate Soldiers up to 2-1/8 inches tall 4 Horses, 4 Sandbag Bunkers, 6 Fence Sections, 3 Cannon, 3 Limber Wagons (Ammo Carts) Bridge, Small Barracks, 2 Cardboard buildings Scale: About 1/35th

Civil War History Documentary DVD Movie Titles

American Experience The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry After Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the governor of Massachusetts was authorized to raise the first northern black regiment,  the Massachusetts 54th colored infantry.

Long Road Back to Kentucky: The 1862 Confederate Invasion The often-overlooked Western campaign of the war with a specific emphasis on Kentucky's involvement in the American Civil War.

History's Mysteries: Family Feud: The Hatfields And McCoys Millions of dollars worth of timber and coal rich land were at stake, the courts were involved and once the national press got wind of what was happening, the backwoods folk found that their fight was being followed nationwide

The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns Here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one

Sources:
United States Military Academy
Library of Congress
National Park Service