Portraits of Conflict: Tennessee: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War

by Richard B. McCaslin

It's one thing to understand that over twenty-thousand Confederate and Union soldiers died at the Battle of Murfreesboro. It's quite another to study an ambrotype portrait of twenty-year-old private Frank B. Crosthwait, dressed in his Sunday best, looking somberly at the camera. In a tragically short time, he'll be found on the battlefield, mortally wounded, still clutching the knotted pieces of handkerchief he used in a hopeless attempt to stop the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557288313
• ISBN13: 9781557288318
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 11.0"