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In fact, Cooling s greatest contribution may be his clear demonstration that Grant was fooled by Early s operations and took an uncommonly long time to react to a very serious threat. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e Cooling s superb account of one of the most dramatic ventures of the Civil War, one the peaked with a Confederate army at the gate of the nation s capital even as powerful Union forces threatened a clamp on the capital of Rebeldom . . . reflects most intensive research and provides a strictly objective account of the doings of both sides in the course of Early s thrust at Washington, from his entry into Maryland until his withdrawal back into Virginia. \u003ci\u003eJournal of Military History\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49862780879121,"sku":"CIN093385286XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53644187304209,"sku":"CIN093385286XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/093385286X.jpg?v=1750948278"},{"product_id":"to-the-battles-of-franklin-and-nashville-and-beyond-book-benjamin-franklin-cooling-iii-9781572337510","title":"To the Battles of Franklin and Nashville and Beyond","description":"\"\"Benjamin Franklin Cooling has produced a triumphant third volume to his definitive study of Tennessee and Kentucky in the Civil War. Like his first two volumes, this one perfectly integrates the home front and battlefield, demonstrating that civilians were continually embroiled in the war in intense ways comparable to and often surpassing the violence experienced by soldiers on the battlefield. The impacts of armies, guerrillas, and other military forces on civilians was continual, terrifying, and brutal in nearly all parts of the Confederacy's Heartland.\"\" - T. Michael Parrish, Linden G. Bowers Professor of American History, Baylor University  \"\"Cooling's scholarship is indeed sound and based on extensive research in a variety of original sources that range from manuscript collections to newspapers, with an exhaustive list of secondary sources. His work represents the first new interpretations of this important part of the war in decades.\"\" - Archie P. McDonald, Regent's Professor and Community Liaison, Stephen F. 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Not only are such concepts relevant to the historical study of the Civil War in the heartland, Cooling suggests, but by the same token, their illumination of historical events can only enrich the ways in which policymakers view present-day conflicts.  In chronicling Tennessee and Kentucky’s final rite of passage from war to peace, To the Battles of Franklin and Nashville and Beyond is in every way a major contribution to Civil War literature by a masterful historian.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50383933407505,"sku":"CIN1572337516G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1572337516.jpg?v=1769853367"},{"product_id":"forts-henry-and-donelson-book-benjamin-franklin-cooling-iii-9781572332652","title":"Forts Henry and Donelson","description":"Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2008  This book was a pretty easy read. It introduces and follows the first major campaign in the West from the point of view of the generals commanding. It did a good job documenting the early build up of the different armies as they built up their troops and defenses. In the case of the Union, the early development of the navy in the western rivers is described. There were lots of pictures and period lithographs. There were few maps but they were good and easy to read not dark fuzzy reproduction of Maps from the Official Records. The strength of this book was its examination of the commanders and their blunders. For the Confederates each commander was focused on his position and saw it as the key to the west. The author does a good job of telling you why the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers were vital to the North and South. The North could use these rivers to strike deep into the center of the rebellion. Johnston never visited Forts Henry and Donelson and didn't appreciate their importance until they were threatened. 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