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War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville. By James Lee McDonough. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994. xviii, 386 pp. $32.00, ISBN 0-87049-847-9.)
With the publication of this volume, James Lee McDonough continues his contributions to the military historiography of the western theater of the Civil War. The author of well-received works on the battles of Stones River, Shiloh, and Chattanooga, McDonough has chosen for his latest subject the neglected period following the battle at Shiloh through the turning-point conflict at the little hamlet of Perryville, Kentucky. McDonough's is the first book-length study of this campaign.
McDonough develops the story through a strategic examination of what happened after Shiloh. First came Henry Halleck's decision to split up his huge Federal army. This allowed Confederate general Braxton Bragg to seize the initiative...