WE SHALL CONQUER OR DIE: Partisan Warfare in 1862 Western Kentucky

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Describes the partisan guerrilla organization and battles in Western Kentucky during the ACW and Union efforts to bring it under control. The raiding and fighting took hundreds of lives, destroyed or captured millions of dollars of supplies, and siphoned away thousands of men from the Union war effort. Covers Confederate Col. Adam Rankin Johnson and his 10th Kentucky Partisan Rangers who captured six Union-controlled towns, hundreds of prisoners, and tons of Union army equipment. The Union mobilized regular army troops, militia of the Indiana Legion, temporary service day regiments, and brown water naval vessels. Clearing the area of partisans and installing a modicum of Union control became one of the Northern high command's major objectives. Contains 10 maps and 46 images.