Blood on the Cumberland

War is a deadly chess match. Military tacticians and strategists plan assaults and defenses while they maneuver their troops around battlefields just as chess masters move porcelain pieces on a chessboard. The best military planners take on and defeat their opponents with flare and verve. On the frigid and snowy morning of Dec 7, 1862, a small group of Confederates attacked and defeated a much larger force of Union soldiers just outside the tiny hamlet of Hartsville, Tennessee. There is much debate as to the importance of the battle, but there is no debate that the victory of the force led by Colonel John Hunt Morgan was remarkable and magnificent. In fact, it was one of the boldest and most successfully executed operations of entire the Civil War. This book is about that battle.