Wow what gifts Peanut. That is tremendous. I too enjoy Civil War reading and visiting battlefields.
I own 3 books on military tactics. All 3 are required reading at almost every military academy in the world. The one I prize most is “The Campaigns of General Nathan Bedford Forrest and of Forrest’s Cavalry”.
There isn’t a political word in the book. It examines every battle he was in or commanded of which there were 100’s. He was the only man to rise from private to 5 star general in the war, a brilliant military mind.
I moved to Manchester TN from CA, picked it off a road map. I found myself in the middle of a continuous battle ground of the civil war. Some of the small communities near me changed hands a dozen times in the war . Every little country road I drove down were dotted with Civil War cemeteries.
The book on Forrest’s campaigns has chapters dedicated to this area of TN. I found the book in a “old fashioned” book store in Nashville. It had tall ladders that ran on rails in the floor and ceiling. The book is a gold mine of information on battles, 704 pages of tiny print.
Every chance I got for 2 years I’d take this book and walk the ground of his battles in the area, Winchester, Tullahoma, Wartrace, Murfreesboro and dozens of other communities to numerous to name. Basically both sides of I-24 from Nashville to Chattanooga is a continuous battle ground. Forrest fought over this ground for a couple of years.