Rating: 
Summary: Good detailed account of the battle, but sometimes drags
Review: This book provides an excellent account of the character of General Bragg and the Confederate army at Stones River. Details of the battle are complete and detailed, but book lacks the intimacy of other Cozzens books on Civil Wars battles. Nevertheless, a thorough account of the battle and worth a read.
Rating:
Summary: Good detailed account of the battle, but sometimes drags
Review: This book provides an excellent account of the character of General Bragg and the Confederate army at Stones River. Details of the battle are complete and detailed, but book lacks the intimacy of other Cozzens books on Civil Wars battles. Nevertheless, a thorough account of the battle and worth a read.
Rating:
Summary: No Punch, No Verve.
Review: This is a very complete, very detailed account of the Battle of Stones River but it lacks the intensity of other works by Peter Cozzens. As a result, I was disappointed with the narrative. However, it is a good work, deserving of your time. Fought by two mediocre generals, Braxton Bragg and William S. Rosecrans, this engagement was intense and ugly. As the 24,000 casualties indicate, once begun, there was little strategy involved. The opposing armies simply mauled each other. As mention in my review of Stones River by James Lee McDonough, this was the first major battle in the Union's plan to seize the Nashville-Chattanooga-Atlanta corridor. Claimed by many to be a tactical draw, it was a Southern defeat of the worst sort. The South lost control of an invaluable asset, middle Tennessee's railroads. It is from this spring board that Union armies once again sliced the Confederacy in two. If you are a Peter Cozzens fan as I am, know ahead of time that this is not Peter Cozzens at his best.
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