TY - JOUR
AU - Dougan, Michael B.
AB - 538 The Journal of American History September 2006 son and many of his comrades to the brink 1864 led by Gen. Sterling Price. Around these of desertion. Were privation and separation events hinged the fate of Louisiana, Arkansas, from home sufficient to transform Confeder- Texas, Missouri, and Indian Territory. ates into dissidents? Or did hardship produce All those events—what happened as well as what did not happen—came about, as the an apathetic malaise that turned ordinary sol- diers against the war in general? Walker, who is author ably demonstrated, because of a crisis not a professional historian, should have been in the Confederate command structure. Not irrelevantly, Smith and Taylor are pictured on encouraged to address these larger questions. In the end, Hell’s Broke Loose in Georgia stands the dust jacket staring in opposite directions. as a heartfelt recounting of one regiment’s tri- Useful maps and pictures of the principals ac- umphs and traumas, but the book’s pedestrian company the text. The notes are extensive and research and thin analysis will further encour- benefit greatly from the author’s research in age professional historians to ask: “Do we re- postwar sources. The rich index includes ma- ally need another book 
TI - A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/4486298
DA - 2006-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/a-crisis-in-confederate-command-edmund-kirby-smith-richard-taylor-and-Cx1hk0mF0s
SP - 538
EP - 538
VL - 93
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -