A Day Late and a Dollar Short: The Fate of A. J. Smith's Command during Price's 1864 Missouri Raid by Titterington, Dick

A Day Late and a Dollar Short: The Fate of A. J. Smith's Command during Price's 1864 Missouri Raid (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781502357250)

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A Day Late and a Dollar Short: The Fate of A. J. Smith's Command during Price's 1864 Missouri Raid by Titterington, Dick

A Day Late and a Dollar Short: The Fate of A. J. Smith's Command during Price's 1864 Missouri Raid

$15.00
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: The Fate of A. J. Smith's Command during Price's 1864 Missouri Raid by Titterington, Dick

A Day Late and a Dollar Short: The Fate of A. J. Smith's Command during Price's 1864 Missouri Raid

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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Major General Andrew Jackson Smith, commanding the Right Wing of the 16th Army Corp, is on his way east to join Major General William T. Sherman's Atlanta campaign.The Federal commander in Missouri, Major General William S. Rosecrans keeps hearing reports that Confederate Major General Sterling Price is planning to invade Missouri.Much to Sherman's annoyance, Rosecrans convinces the US War Department to divert A. J. Smith's command into Missouri to counter the Confederate cavalry raid. Smith's objectives are to bring Price's Army of Missouri to battle and destroy it.This book tells the story of how A. J. Smith's command is diverted to Missouri to defend the state against Sterling Price. Find out if Smith's operations against Price in the fall of 1864 are successful. Learn about the difficulties in managing a campaign in 1864 Missouri. Understand some of the personalities of the Federal commanders who are the key decision makers in Missouri during Price's raid.

Author: Dick Titterington
ISBN-10: 1502357259
ISBN-13: 9781502357250
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2014
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d
By Dick Titterington
By Dick Titterington
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Dick Titterington is theCivilWarMuse, an amateur historian with particular interest in the American Civil War. Dick maintains a website, http: //www.thecivilwarmuse.com/ that provides virtual tours of Civil War battlefields with interesting facts about the battle and biographies of key individuals. The virtual tours allow you to travel back in time and personally take walking and auto tours of various battlefields and expeditions. Area maps, waypoints and pictures are provided to orient and guide you through your visit. Dick also has a blog Trans-Mississippi Musings (http: //www.transmississippimusings.com/) writing about interesting stories that took place in the Trans-Mississippi theater during the American Civil War, including the Reconstruction era following the wa

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