Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Jonathan W. White - NH) Section- African American History Rosecrans’s Army of the Cumberland

Rosecrans’s Army of the Cumberland had driven Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee entirely out of Middle Tennessee

Release date: February 2016

But his efforts came at tremendous cost: long separations from his beloved children and “dearest friend” and wife

An ineffective Confederate response exposed one of Bragg’s flanks—and his entire army—to complete disaster

The bloody beach landings where frogmen teams led the way through murderous fire

Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Jonathan W. White - NH) Section- African American History Rosecrans’s Army of the Cumberlandby Jonathan White From the New York Times: "The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery." Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid 19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering