NF Underrated Authors?

[DixieRifles]

Cool! Good luck with your talk! I--sadly--don't have a single Tim Smith yet

Well start with "The Real Horse Soldiers" on Grierson's raid. He tracks his path through Mississippi in great detail.
I had to read his book on Shiloh because I was it had a better history of the 2d day.

I have not read his book on Corinth.

 

[DixieRifles]

If you're looking for a micro tactical deep dive, definitely go with Champion Hill by SB (2004?). The 'Inland Battles' is more of an operational study of those 5 engagements including Champion Hill.

I bought "Inland Battles" but have not read it. I wondered how different it would be. In dome of his latter books, he seems to have a lot of quotes from commanders that focus on the decisions and planning.
His 2004 book titled Champion Hill is full of hour by hour maps of that battle.

 

[G Low]

Red Clay to Richmond: Trail of the 35th Georgia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
Book by John J. Fox

I'm reading this one, I had Five uncles that fought in this unit. 1 came home early disabled. 2 died on battlefields One died in a hospital in Maryland . And one surrendered at Appomattox. The human toll of the war is what gets to me.

 

[Library Lady]

Sound like a broken record….. if it's Kentucky- related, check out Kenneth Hafendorfer. Unfortunately, they can be difficult to get.

I see he also published a book on a Forrest raid at Murfreesboro, and the journal of a William L. Trask. Have not seen these yet.

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[6thMichCav]

Although rather short, I enjoyed "Double Cannister at Ten Yards" by Dave Shulz.

Another good one for understanding the press reaction to Pickett's Charge is Carol Reardon's "Pickett's Charge in History and Memory."

 

[TallTallMan]

@JohnnyReb421745 @DixieRifles Thanks for the recommendations!

 

[lupaglupa]

I'm gonna pile on with @SSVilla and @DixieRifles and say y'all should read Tim Smith. His book on the Mississippi home front is excellent and a topic that not a lot of people cover. Heck, I even enjoyed the one on the Mississippi Secession convention!

 

[DixieRifles]

I'm gonna pile on with @SSVilla and @DixieRifles and say y'all should read Tim Smith. His book on the Mississippi home front is excellent and a topic that not a lot of people cover.

I finally learned the true story about the Steele Bayou expedition. I though they sent a few troop transports up this little bayou in flood conditions. Just a month ago I learned that 5 City-Class gunboats squeezed their way up to the town of Rolling Fork(only 65 miles from my childhood home). Who would have expected that. That is the same size gunboats as the USS CAIRO. 5 of them— each 175 Feet long.

I wish I knew that 30 or even 50 years ago.