Product Description
by Gerald L. Augustus (Author)
In this book, noted local Civil War historian, Gerald L. Augustus offers a fresh and comprehensive analysis of the Battle of Campbell's Station. Relying on primary sources, newly constructed maps, and his own keen knowledge of the battle terrain, Augustus provides an almost hour by hour accounting of the decisions, movements, and encounters that made up this significant battle. Along the way, he includes three excurses that provide helpful background for understanding the battle as well as its consequences in human terms, and three appendices that provide the order of the battle, as well as casualties for both Union and Confederate Armies. This mid-November 1863 drama involved Union General Ambrose Burnside with some 5,000 men desperately trying to retreat to Knoxville from opposite Loudon, Tennessee. In close pursuit was Confederate General James Longstreet with nearly 12,000 troops intent on either capturing or destroying Burnside's immediate command and then recapturing Knoxville. Burnside would win the race to junction of Kingston Road and Lenoirs Road, but the fighting known as the Battle of Campbell's Station would move eastward for over two miles and last from about 9.00 am until after dark. Burnside's forces would again slip into the dark and continue on to Knoxville and successfully defend the city until reinforcements arrived.
Author Biography
Gerald L. Augustus (MS, University of Tennessee) is a retired educator and principal from the Lenoir City School System. He has been a contributor to an antique magazine and editor/co-author of _Loudon, Tennessee and Its People 1870-1999_. He is a consultant to several local museums, a speaker, and a collector of anything dealing with 'The War'. He is the author of _The Loudon County Area of East Tennessee in the War, 1861-1865_, his first book length study of 'The War'. Gerald was one of the two featured contributors in the 2013 production of WBIR's Heartland Special, 'Hidden Battlefield, The Battle of Campbell's Station'. An avid collector of Civil War era firearms, his display of firearms, 'Flintlock to Rimfire', won the 2013 Best of Show Award at the Pigeon Forge, TN Civil War Show.
