Perrysburg resident, Dan Masters, Civil War author and historian will conduct a program on the Battle of Stone River.  His talk will tie in the stories of three Perrysburg soldiers who took part in this battle.  The program will also feature his new book called Hell by the Acre:  A narrative History of the Stones River Campaign which is being published by Savas Beatie and set for release in November.  Mr. Masters is a graduate of the University of Toledo with a BA in communications.  He is the author of many articles in magazines and journals on the Civil War, as well as ten books.

In the waning days of 1862, the Union Armysuffered major defeats at Fredericksburg in Viginia and Chickasaw Bayou in MIssissippi.  It fell to Naj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans and his army of the Cumberland to secure a victory that would give military teeth to the Emancipation Proclamation set to take effect January 1, 1863.  Rosecrans moved his army out of Nashville on the day after Christmas to Murfreesboro, met Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and fought one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the war. 

The full campaign is the subject of Daniel Masters' new Hell by the Acre: A Narrative History of the Stones River Campaign.