Dick Titterington

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Sterling Price Returns: The Southern Counteroffensive to Retake Missouri in 1861 (Trans-Mississippi Musings, #3) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

It's the summer of 1861 and the Missouri State Guard has just won a fight with Federal volunteers from Missouri in the Battle of Carthage. Having been driven to the extreme southwestern part of Missouri by the Federals, Major General Sterling Price is eager to launch a counter-offensive and retake control of the State of Missouri. But first Price needs to convince Brigadier General Ben McCulloch to ally his Confederates with Price's Missouri State Guard. Combined, the Southerners will have the strength to defeat the army being assembled by Federal Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon. The Southern allies march north and meet the Federals just ten miles south of Springfield, Missouri along a stream called Wilson's Creek. After the fight at Wilson's Creek, Sterling Price marches his Missouri State Guard north to try and capture the key Missouri River town of Lexington, Missouri. In response, Major General John Charles Frémont, mobilizes the forces under his command in Missouri to pursue and destroy the Missouri State Guard. Frémont's army finally catches up with the Missouri State Guard in Springfield later that fall.

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Dick Titterington is theCivilWarMuse, an amateur historian with particular interest in the American Civil War. Dick maintains a website, theCivilWarMuse.com, providing 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 war.

Dick is currently retired and living in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area after a 26-year career as an Information Technology professional.

Dick is a volunteer docent at the Battle of Westport Visitor Center (http://battleofwestport.org/VisitorCenter.htm) in Kansas City, Missouri.

Dick volunteers for SPARK (Senior Peers Actively Renewing Knowledge) teaching classes on the Civil War in Missouri. SPARK is an Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) and a member of the Road Scholar Institute Network (RSIN). SPARK partners with the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Follow Dick on Twitter @theCivilWarMuse

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trans-Mississippi Musings Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501452680
• Artikelnr.: 42491250