The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau
The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau
Aaron Aston
Arcadia Publishing
192 pages
$21.99
“Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau played host to some of the most dramatic military maneuvering of the Civil War. Straddling the entire state of Tennessee, the formidable tableland proved to be a maze of topographical pitfalls and a morass of divided loyalties. “
–From the publisher
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