In "The Civil War in the Wester Theater, 1862, " author Charles R. Bowery Jr. examines the campaigns and battles that occurred during 1862 in the vast region between the Appalachian Mountains in the east and the Mississippi River in the west, and from the Ohio River in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. Notable battles discussed include Mill Springs, Kentucky, Forts Henry and Donelson, Tennessee, Shiloh, Tennessee, Perryville, Kentucky, Corinth and Iuka, Mississippi, and Stones River, Tennessee.