The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads: and the Civil War’s Final Campaign (Eric J. Wittenberg - CWC) Loperfido First-person accounts from individuals in

First-person accounts from individuals in and around Gettysburg who witnessed the battle and its aftermath

dozens of quotations from Confederate soldiers

killing her instantly

retired Chief Historian

this "pyrrhic" victory prevented Forrest form being in Tennessee to cut the supply lines of Union General Sherman's army that captured and burned Atlanta on their "March to the Sea

The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads: and the Civil War’s Final Campaign (Eric J. Wittenberg - CWC) Loperfido First-person accounts from individuals inBattle of Monroe's Crossroads: and the Civil War's Final Campaign by Eric J. Wittenberg The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, March 10, 1865, was one of most important but least known engagements of William T. Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. Now in paperback, here is the only book length account of this combat. As Sherman's infantry crossed into North Carolina, Maj. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick's veteran Federal cavalry division fanned out in front, screening