Union Army officer and noted Kentucky historian Edmund L. Starling said of Adam Stovepipe Johnson's Confederate raid on Newburgh, Johnson performed perhaps the most reckless, and yet most successful, military master stroke achieved by any commander of high or low authority, in either army during the war. Thunder from a Clear Sky displays this little-known, but fascinating nugget of Civil War history--the first Confederate military raid to cross the Mason-Dixon Line during the American Civil War, the capture of the thriving ...
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Union Army officer and noted Kentucky historian Edmund L. Starling said of Adam Stovepipe Johnson's Confederate raid on Newburgh, Johnson performed perhaps the most reckless, and yet most successful, military master stroke achieved by any commander of high or low authority, in either army during the war. Thunder from a Clear Sky displays this little-known, but fascinating nugget of Civil War history--the first Confederate military raid to cross the Mason-Dixon Line during the American Civil War, the capture of the thriving river-port community of Newburgh, Indiana. With the politically divided landscape of Civil War Kentucky and the steamboat economy of the Ohio River as its backdrop, the surprising events of July, 1862, build to an improbable climax. In this story of deception, betrayal, murder, and revenge, Adam Johnson--Kentucky legend, Texas hero, Confederate soldier--conducts a traveling recruiting campaign through the hills of western Kentucky in the summer of 1862. Johnson's crowning effort, his foray onto Northern soil, has the unintended consequence of waking the sleeping giant. that seals the fate of western Kentucky for the remainder of the war. For more, please visit: thunderfromaclearsky.com
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