Cooling is well able to do what is sometimes termed 'the new military history.' Broad in context and often interdisciplinary, it is vastly more sophisticated, useful, and informative than what I suppose must be now rightly called 'the old military history' done in prior decades. -- Herman Hattaway, coauthor of How the North Won and Why the South Lost the Civil WarFort Donelson's Legacy portrays the tapestry of war and society in the upper southern heartland of Tennessee and Kentucky after the key Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862. Those victories, notes Benjamin...