| Nick Nascati | 09 Mar 2010 5:30 a.m. PST |
All, Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: Military Operations and Order of Battle of the Revolutionary War in the Carolinas – Three Volumes Anyone know about this three volume set? I saw it on Amazon for $62.00, and wonder if its worth the money. |
| EMPERORS LIBRARY | 09 Mar 2010 6:00 a.m. PST |
You can get more information at bluehousetavern.com
and it is 4 volumes in total.
I had not known about this series until your posting but it looks like well worth having!
Paul |
| Twitchy | 09 Mar 2010 6:53 a.m. PST |
I'd highly recommend them. They go into fantastic detail about the endless fighting in the Carolinas through out the war, from the smallest engagements/disputes, to the largest battles. It's really an eye opener. We tend to think only of the major engagements, but these books detail no end of little conflicts as well that speak to the bitterness of some of the fighting as well as the industriousness of individuals wanting to assist their side, be it Whig or Tory. The books are not a narrative, nor to they try to imply reason on the chaos. Instead they're a collection of micro articles about each of the engagements. Good stuff. Twitchy |
| Nick Nascati | 09 Mar 2010 6:58 a.m. PST |
Thanks to you both. I just ordered the first two volumes for now. Since I'm working with the Too Fat Lardies "This Land Divided" supplement, these two cover the period in the TFL publication. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 09 Mar 2010 9:20 a.m. PST |
Get the other two as well, when you can. Excellent value. The English is a bit odd in places – bad editing by the publisher – but the content is superb. |
| Greenryth | 09 Mar 2010 10:30 a.m. PST |
I second that…great books. |
| Nick Nascati | 09 Mar 2010 10:46 a.m. PST |
Sounds like a good purchase then. |
| Dale Hurtt | 09 Mar 2010 6:24 p.m. PST |
Highly recommended books. I use them for all my AWI southern campaign scenarios and army lists. |
| Adam D | 09 Mar 2010 8:47 p.m. PST |
The impression I get is that the author has been remarkably good about gathering information about a wide variety of battles and skirmishes. By gathering all of those figures together he has performed a real service. However, I also get the impression that the author has done a much better job of covering the breadth of fighting than of carefully analyzing the evidence about what happened at particular battles. By way of an example, compare his treatment of the American cavalry at Cowpens, which appears at the following link, PDF link with my detailed review of the same subject. link link Numbers that he gives in his OOB that are not listed at the above links are reflective of assumptions rather than statements in the source material. I find some of these assumptions to be rather dubious as the total number of American cavalrymen that he came up with (169) is considerably greater than that indicated in the source material (no more than 120). If one is not bothered by such quibbles, then you may like the following. The website below has OOBs for every battle in South Carolina and seems to be based on this series of books (at least the Cowpens OOBs are identical): link |
| David O Brien | 06 Dec 2016 11:05 a.m. PST |
Adam, your bottom link doesn't appear to be working. |
 War Artisan  | 06 Dec 2016 12:43 p.m. PST |
Maybe because the link six and a half years old? And Adam hasn't visited TMP in over five years, so it's unlikely he will be offering an updated link. |
| alien BLOODY HELL surfer | 07 Dec 2016 10:09 a.m. PST |
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 ochoin  | 07 Dec 2016 12:51 p.m. PST |
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| ochoin | 07 Dec 2016 12:54 p.m. PST |
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 07 Dec 2016 5:33 p.m. PST |
Is this the same info? link |
| Private Matter | 08 Dec 2016 11:10 a.m. PST |
This is the link to the original information posted. Your link is an interesting one as well, Bill. link |
