Showing posts with label tennessee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tennessee. Show all posts
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Press Release Hidden History of Civil War Tennessee
Press Release Hidden History of Civil War Tennessee
Hidden History of Civil War Tennessee
James B. Jones Jr.
Tennessee’s Civil War history is an oft-told narrative of famous battles, cunning campaigns and
Meet the author
Wednesday, July 31 at 7 p.m. {Book Launch} @ Belmont Mansion Museum |1700 Acklen Ave, Nashville
Saturday, August 17 @ Hastings | 1660 Memorial Blvd, Murfreesboro
Saturday, August 24 at 2-4 p.m. @ Vanderbilt U. B&N Bookstore | 2501 West End Ave Nashville
Tuesday, February 4 at 2:30 p.m. @ Metropolitan Archives (First Tuesday at the Archives Meeting)
James B. Jones Jr. is a public historian on the staff of the Tennessee Historical Commission/State Historic Preservation Office in Nashville. He has published many books and articles on many topics about Tennessee history, including but not limited to the Civil War. He serves also as the editor of the THC newsletter, the Courier. He earned a doctor of arts degree in history and historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University in 1983. He resides with his spouse in Murfreesboro.
ISBN: 978-1-60949-899-3 • Paperback • 128 pages • $19.99 • July 18, 2013
This new book is available at local stores and online at www.historypress.net
It retails as an E-BOOK via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple’s I-bookstore, Google’s E-bookstore, & Overdrive.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Press Release The Dreaded Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry
Press Release The Dreaded Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry
The History Press is pleased to introduce the new title:
The Dreaded Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry
Marauding Mountain Men
Melanie Storie
Tennessee’s Thirteenth Union Cavalry was a unit composed mostly of amateur soldiers that eventually turned undisciplined boys into seasoned fighters. At the outbreak of the Civil War, East Tennessee was torn between its Unionist tendencies and the surrounding Confederacy. The result was the persecution of the “home Yankees” by Confederate sympathizers. Rather than quelling Unionist fervor, this oppression helped East Tennessee contribute an estimated thirty thousand troops to the North. Some of those troops joined the “Loyal Thirteenth” in Stoneman’s raid and in pursuit of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Join author Melanie Storie as she recounts the harrowing narrative of an often-overlooked piece of Civil War history.
A scholar and teacher of American history for more than twenty years, Melanie Storie is a graduate of East Tennessee State University. In 1991, she earned her master’s of arts degree in history, and for the past ten years, she has had the pleasure of teaching for her alma mater. In addition to teaching survey courses in U.S. history, she has also taught Tennessee history and women’s history. While she enjoys researching, writing and teaching about many historical topics, her main research interest centers on nineteenth-century U.S. history, with a special emphasis on the American Civil War. She lives in Elizabethton, Tennessee, with her husband and two children.
ISBN: 978-1-62619-112-9 • Paperback • 160 pages • $21.99 • October 2013
This new book is available at local stores and online at www.historypress.net
It retails as an E-BOOK via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, the iBookstore, Kobo & OverDrive.
Press Release Hoods Tennessee Campaign The Desperate Venture of a Desperate Man
Press Release Hoods Tennessee Campaign The Desperate Venture of a Desperate Man
The History Press is pleased to announce the publication of Hoods Tennessee Campaign: The Desperate Venture of a Desperate Man (Civil War Sesquicentennial)
by James R. Knight.
by James R. Knight.
About the book: The Tennessee Campaign of November and December 1864 was the Southern Confederacy’s last significant offensive operation of the Civil War. General John Bell Hood of the Confederate Army of Tennessee attempted to capture Nashville, the final realistic chance for a battlefield victory against the Northern juggernaut. Hood’s former West Point instructor, Major General George Henry Thomas, led the Union force, fighting those who doubted him in his own army as well as Hood’s Confederates. Through the bloody, horrific battles at Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville and a freezing retreat to the Tennessee River, Hood ultimately failed. Civil War historian James R. Knight chronicles the Confederacy’s last real hope at victory and its bitter disappointment.
Meet-the-Author
Thursday, August 21 at 6 p.m. @ Maury County Library
(211 W 8th St, Columbia, TN)
Friday, August 22 at 10 a.m. @ FiftyForward Turner Lifelong Living Center at Bellevue YMCA (8101 Hwy 100, Nashville, TN)
Friday, October 10, time TBA @ Stones River National Battlefield (3501 Old Nashville Highway, Murfreesboro, TN)
November 14-16 @ Carter House/Canton Plantation, celebrating Blue & Grey days and anniversary of Battle of Franklin (Franklin, TN)
Saturday, November 29 @ Rippavilla Plantation - The Battle of Spring Hill Sesquicentennial Anniversary (Spring Hill, TN)
Tuesday, December 2 at 2:30 p.m. @ The Metropolitan Archives - First Tuesday at the Archives Meeting (Nashville, TN)
Monday, March 23, time TBA @ The Blount Mansion (Knoxville, TN)
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