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Article: Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2006
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Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth. By Stephen D. Engle. (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 251. $16.95.)
This author's contribution to the "Great Campaigns of the Civil War" series offers a nice introduction to the Union army's 1862 invasion of Kentucky and Tennessee. Although there is little new in this volume, the overview touches on a broad set of important issues that pertain mostly to the military campaigns but also to their social and political consequences.
Stephen D. Engle's account reminds us that neither the Union nor the Confederacy knew how to fight the Civil War. The Confederacy ...