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The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass State. Edited by Kent Masterson Brown. (Mason City, Iowa: Savas Publishing Company, 2000. Pp.viii, 320. Cloth, $29.95.)
In The Civil War in Kentucky, Kent Masterson Brown has assembled a collection of essays by some of the most renowned scholars of Civil War Kentucky. Many of the essays are devoted to military topics, including a cogent account by the venerable Charles Roland of the Confederacy's desperate attempt, headed by Albert Sidney Johnston, to defend Kentucky's violated neutrality. Scholars Ron Nichols, D. Warren Lambert, Kenneth Noe, and Brown write authoritatively on the battles at Mill Springs, Richmond, Perryville, and Munfordville respectively, emphasizing the strategic importance of each encounter. These chapters are enriched by maps of battle engagements as well as summaries of forces and casualties of each conflict.
Two of the...