Preview – Mackowski, “The Great Battle Never Fought”

New from Savas Beatie and the Emerging Civil War series is The Great Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign, November 26 – December 2, 1863, by Chris Mackowski. You get:

123 pages of narrative, in thirteen chapters plus epilogue.

• An Afterword by Ted Savas, featuring how he located the Payne’s Farm battlefield site.
• A ten stop driving tour with GPS coordinates.
• Appendix A, Rest, Soldier, Rest, by Mike Block, on the Army of the Potomac’s hospitals during the winter encampment of 1863-1864.
• Appendix B, I Suppose the Result Will Be a Pretty General Sweeping Out, by Ryan T. Quint, on the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac in the wake of the aborted Mine Run Campaign.
• Orders of Battle.
• Suggested Reading.
• Eight Hal Jesperson Maps.
• Profusely illustrated with vintage and modern-day photos.
• No footnotes, no bibliography, no index.

Chris Mackowski is the editor-in-chief of Emerging Civil War. See his author page here.