Lavishly illustrated with period photography, reenactments, animated battle maps and rare works of art, this documentary takes you onto the battlefields of Richmond, Munfordville and Perryville.
Students will Learn: The military situation in the Western theatre (west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River) after the Battle of Shiloh / How General Braxton Bragg moved his Confederate army from Tupelo, Mississippi to Chattanooga, Tennessee in order to invade Kentucky / How the Confederate armies west of the Appalachian Mountains communicated with the Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia / Why General Edmund Kirby Smith's army was located at Knoxville, Tennessee / How Generals Smith's and Bragg's armies entered Kentucky and where they were situated by mid-September 1862 / If the invasion of Kentucky was the high water mark of the Confederacy by mid-September 1862.
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