About the Author

Earl J. Hess is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University and the author of fifteen books on the Civil War, including Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign; The Knoxville Campaign: Burnside and Longstreet in East Tennessee; and The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi.

Reviews

"Nobody knows the Civil War battlefield better than Earl J. Hess, and his outstanding book Civil War Infantry Tactics is confirmation of that fact. . . . This is first-rate military history."-- "Civil War Monitor"