Bentonville

“Bentonville is a well-paced, readable book that places the engagement within the context of the Carolinas Campaign. The author’s extensive footnotes and bibliography evince years of dedicated research on the topic and the maps are models of clarity. . . . . This book helps rectify that long neglect of campaigns and battles of the western theater.” — Journal of Southwest Georgia History

“Hughes’s narrative, . . . reviewing the leadership of Johnston and Sherman and the conduct of their subordinates, is a model of its kind.” — Journal of American History

“Well researched and ably written. . . . Advanced pupils will certainly learn much from this book.” — KLIATT

“One of the best accounts yet of this vicious fight.” — Civil War

“A well-written, comprehensive account of the last gasp of Johnston’s army.” — Historian

“The definitive work on the battle of Bentonville.” — Journal of Southern History

“Using a rich array of archival and published sources, Hughes presents a detailed tactical study of one of the last major Civil War confrontations. . . . With lively prose and judicious interpretations, Hughes captures the reader’s attention and maintains a high level of action and suspense throughout. He focuses on the exact movements of the military units and on the success and failures of officers throughout the ebb and flow of the conflict. Intimately familiar with the terrain of the battlefield and the backgrounds of the key players, the author brings alive the smaller human interest stories in the struggle of brother against brother. A lively and authoritative account for all adult readers.” — CHOICE

“Hughes’s excellent battle monograph is oriented toward the scholarly reader but accessible to the general one.” — Booklist

“Employing all of the talents of a good historian — prodigious research, judicious interpretations, and a well-crafted narrative, Hughes has produced a book that contains surprises as well as explanations.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch

“The best-researched and best-written account to date of one of the Civil War’s most neglected battles.” — W. T. Jordan, editor, North Carolina Troops