Confederate Generals in the Western Theater, volume 3: Essays on America's Civil War

Contents [Includes Illustrations]

Contents Series Editor’s Foreword xi Gary D. Joiner Foreword xiii Steven E. Woodworth Preface xv Leonidas Polk and the Fate of Kentucky in 1861 1 Robert I. Girardi To Conquer or Perish: The Last Hours of Albert Sidney Johnston 21 Timothy B. Smith General G.T. Beauregard’s Role at the Battle of Shiloh: Hero orVillain? 39 Wiley Sword Martin Luther Smith and the Defense of the Lower Mississippi RiverValley, 1861–1863 61 Arthur W. Bergeron Jr. Daniel Weisiger Adams: Defender of the Confederacy’s Heartland 87 M. Jane Johansson A Name Worth a Division: Simon Bolivar Buckner and the 1862 Kentucky Campaign 121 Stuart W. Sanders William Preston’s Civil War 151 Thomas E. Schott An Irish Confederate: Brigadier General Joseph Finegan of Florida 179 Rory T. Cornish “It Was Perfect Murder”: Stephen D. Lee at Ezra Church 221 Bruce S. Allardice Hiram Bronson Granbury: From Chattanooga to Franklin 247 John R. Lundberg Appendix: Confederate Armies in the Western Theater 277 Bibliography 283 Contributors 303 Index 307 Illustrations Figures Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk xxii General Albert Sidney Johnston 20 General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard 38 General Beauregard at Shiloh Chapel 40 Major General Martin Luther Smith 60 Brigadier General Daniel Weisiger Adams 86 Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner 120 Major General William Preston 150 Brigadier General Joseph Finegan 178 Lieutenant General Stephen Dill Lee 220 Brigadier General Hiram Bronson Granbury 246 Maps Confederate Plan of Attack at Shiloh 24 Beauregard Takes Command 52 Siege of Vicksburg 76 Adams at Shiloh 89 Attack of Adams’s Brigade at Perryville 94 Attack of Adams’s Brigade at Murfreesboro 98 Attack of Adams’s Brigade at Chickamauga 105 Attack of Adams’s Brigade at Chickamauga Near Kelly Field 107 Battle of Perryville 131 Battle of Murfreesboro 159 Battle of Chickamauga 166 Battle of Olustee 201 Battle of Ezra Church 231 Battle of Tunnel Hill 248 Battle of Chickamauga, 3:30 P.M., September 19, 1863 256 Battle of Jonesboro, August 31, 1864 263 Battle of Jonesboro, September 1, 1864 264 Battle of Franklin 269 ...