1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460993703321

Titolo

The Tennessee Campaign of 1864 / / edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8093-3453-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland

Disciplina

973.7/359

Soggetti

Franklin, Battle of, Franklin, Tenn., 1864

Nashville, Battle of, Nashville, Tenn., 1864

Electronic books.

Tennessee History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The long lost diary of Major General Patrick R. Cleburne / Patrick Cleburne, edited by William Lee White -- "The storm broke in all its fury": the struggle for Allatoona Pass / Stewart Bennett -- Errant moves on the chessboard of war: the Battle of Spring Hill, November 29, 1864 / John R. Lundberg -- The destruction of the Army of Tennessee's officer corps at the Battle of Franklin / Andrew S. Bledsoe -- Killing at Franklin: anatomy of slaughter / Jonathan M. Steplyk -- A failure to communicate: Grant, Thomas, and the Nashville Campaign / Brooks D. Simpson -- Where genius cannot exist: the generalship of George H. Thomas / Paul L. Schmelzer -- "No more auction block for me": the fight for freedom by the United States Colored Troops at the Battle of Nashville / D.L. Turner and Scott L. Stabler -- A.J. Smith's detachment in the Battle of Nashville / Steven E. Woodworth -- Civilian participants and observers during the Franklin-Nashville Campaign / John J. Gaines -- "Our peoples are depressed in spirit": Texans' reactions to Hood's Tennessee Campaign / Charles D. Grear -- What could have been: Civil War battlefield preservation at Franklin / Timothy B. Smith -- Preserving the Nashville Battlefield: the South's true lost cause / Jennifer M. Murray.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812941503321

Autore

O'Brien Dan <1947->

Titolo

Wild idea : buffalo and family in a difficult land / / Dan O'Brien ; designed by N. Putens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8032-8638-4

0-8032-8636-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 p.)

Disciplina

636/.01092

Soggetti

Ranchers - South Dakota

Bison farming - South Dakota - Broken Heart Ranch

Ranch life - South Dakota - Broken Heart Ranch

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; About the Author; Other Works by Dan O'Brien

Sommario/riassunto

For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O'Brien's home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains would return natural balance to the region and reestablish the undulating prairie lost through poor land management and overzealous farming. In 1998 he bought his first buffalo and began the task of converting a little cattle ranch into an ethically run buffalo ranch. Wild Idea is a book about how good food cho