Forgotten Campaign: The Story of Armstrong's Raid - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1736152599 ISBN 13: 9781736152591

Publisher: Hillhelen Group LLC, 2021

Synopsis

  "Your readers have been informed by telegraph of the recent raids of immense forces of rebel guerrillas along our whole line at different points, . . . in which the rebels were driven back; but this . . . leaves the impression that it was but an ordinary affair. Instead of its being a skirmish, it was one of the fiercest and most brilliant little battles yet recorded in this fearful struggle for constitutional liberty."

 Thus wrote Durante Bailey, a special correspondent for the Chicago Times, in September 1862, about the battle of Britton's Lane, the culminating event in a military campaign known as Armstrong's Raid.

 This book emphasizes the men, North and South, who rode down the dust-choked roads and died in the unharvested farm fields on a summer day more than one hundred and fifty years ago. They fought and died, not in the glare of public view, but in a forgotten campaign in a remote area of the country . . . ; however, their sacrifice was no less than any other person who fought in that sectional conflict.

About this title

About the Authors

James Weaver, a supporter of historic preservation, is president of the Britton Lane Battlefield Association. Some proceeds from this book will be used to preserve and maintain the battlefield. Weaver is a former lineman, cable splicer, cable splicing foreman and engineer at BellSouth. He retired from AT&T.

HillHelen Group Publishers senior editor. Award-winning journalist for 30 years. Sterling Awards: 20 Most Influential Women in West Tennessee 2014.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hillhelen Group LLC
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1736152599
• ISBN 13: 9781736152591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Hillman Jacque