WILLIAM L. SHEA is professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He is coauthor of several books, including Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West (UNC Press) and Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River.
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"Pea Ridge is destined to become a Civil War classic and a model for writing military history."--Civil War History "A campaign study of a caliber that all should strive for and few will equal."--Journal of American History "A model campaign history that merits recognition as a major contribution to the literature on Civil War military operations."--Journal of Military History "A noteworthy achievement. There has long been a need for a detailed study of this complex campaign and battle. At last it has been done in a wonderfully researched and dramatically presented account."--Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., author of The Civil War in the American West "A thoroughly researched and well-told account of an important but often neglected Civil War encounter."--Kirkus Reviews "An unusual and outstanding contribution to knowledge. . . . A prototype for writing and evaluating modern campaign and battle studies."--Western Historical Quarterly "Offers the rich tactical detail, maps, and order of battle that military scholars love but retains a very readable style combined with liberal use of recollections of the troops and leaders involved."--Library Journal "Shines welcome light on the war's largest battle west of the Mississippi."--USA Today "This book is assured of a place among the best of all studies that have been published on Civil War campaigns."--American Historical Review "With its exhaustive research and lively prose style, this military study is virtually a model work of its kind."--Publishers Weekly