. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . STONES RIVER, OR MURFREESBORO As it is, the battle of Stones River seems less clearlv a Federalvictory than the battle of Shiloh. The latter decided the fall of Corinth;the former did not decide the fall of Chattanooga. Offensively it was adrawn battle, as looked at from either side. As a defensive battle, how-ever, it was clearlv a Union victory.—John Fiske in iiThe MississippiValley in the Civil War. THE battle of Corinth developed a man—William S. Rose-cr
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . STONES RIVER, OR MURFREESBORO As it is, the battle of Stones River seems less clearlv a Federalvictory than the battle of Shiloh. The latter decided the fall of Corinth;the former did not decide the fall of Chattanooga. Offensively it was adrawn battle, as looked at from either side. As a defensive battle, how-ever, it was clearlv a Union victory.—John Fiske in iiThe MississippiValley in the Civil War. THE battle of Corinth developed a man—William S. Rose-crans—whose singular skill in planning the battle, andwhose dauntless courage in riding between the firing-lines atthe opportune moment, drew the countrys attention almostas fully as Grant had done at Fort Donelson. And at thisparticular moment the West needed, or thought it needed, aman. The autumn months of 1862 had been spent by GeneralsBragg and Buell in an exciting race across Kentucky, each atthe head of a great army. Buell had saved Louisville from thelegions of Bragg, and he had driven the Confederate Armyof the Mississ
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