{"product_id":"9781616951368","title":"Bright Starry Banner: A Novel of the Civil War","description":"\u003cb\u003e“This monumentally ambitious novel covers in exquisite and graphic detail one of the bloodiest two-day engagements of the Civil War” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e December 30, 1862: Outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the forty-three thousand men of Maj. General William Starke Rosecrans’s Army of the Cumberland faced the thirty-eight thousand Confederate soldiers of Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee. It had been a dismal month for the Union. In the east, the Army of the Potomac suffered a terrible defeat at Fredericksburg, Virginia; in the west, Grant failed yet again to breach the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Emancipation Proclamation was to go into effect on New Year’s Day, but after the disasters in December, Lincoln’s decree seemed less the assertion of a great moral imperative than a desperate attempt to shore up a crumbling cause. Rosecrans was to engage Bragg \u003ci\u003eand win\u003c\/i\u003e. That evening, the bands of both armies played, while the eighty thousand soldiers joined in singing \u003ci\u003eHome Sweet Home. \u003c\/i\u003eAt dawn, they would set about killing each other.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e At the Battle of Stones River, thousands will fall in savage fighting across the fields and woods of middle Tennessee. The carnage will awaken the best in some men––courage, sacrifice, and honor; the worst in others––cruelty, cowardice, and depravity. In arenas dubbed “the Slaughter Pen” and “Hell’s Half Acre,” the Blue and Gray are about to collide.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Soho Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175380959472,"sku":"9781616951368","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616951368_p0.jpg?v=1763852632","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616951368","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}