Work for Giants

Thomas E. Parson is a park ranger at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, a unit of Shiloh National Military Park. He is also the author of Bear Flag and Bay State in the Civil War: The Californians of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry.

"Work for Giants stands out as a model work of well-written, well-researched military history. Parson takes readers through the Tupelo Campaign's inception, conduct, and execution with a thorough study of the battles and skirmishes and concludes with an authoritative analysis of the results and how participants and historians have remembered and argued over it. He also offers rich personalized descriptions of the key players on each side, giving life to the common soldiers' experiences in their own words." - Civil War Monitor"Work for Giants fills an important historiographical gap in our understanding of the Civil War in the West and the broader context of the Atlanta campaign. In setting the record straight about this little-remembered episode in Civil War history, Parson has provided an invaluable contribution to the literature." - Journal of Southern History