How Long to Read Bright Starry Banner

How Long Does it Take to Read Bright Starry Banner?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 26 minutes to read Bright Starry Banner by Alden R. Carter

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

“This monumentally ambitious novel covers in exquisite and graphic detail one of the bloodiest two-day engagements of the Civil War” (Publishers Weekly). December 30, 1862: Outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the forty-three thousand men of Maj. General William Starke Rosecrans’s Army of the Cumberland faced the thirty-eight thousand Confederate soldiers of Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee. It had been a dismal month for the Union. In the east, the Army of the Potomac suffered a terrible defeat at Fredericksburg, Virginia; in the west, Grant failed yet again to breach the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The Emancipation Proclamation was to go into effect on New Year’s Day, but after the disasters in December, Lincoln’s decree seemed less the assertion of a great moral imperative than a desperate attempt to shore up a crumbling cause. Rosecrans was to engage Bragg and win. That evening, the bands of both armies played, while the eighty thousand soldiers joined in singing Home Sweet Home. At dawn, they would set about killing each other. At the Battle of Stones River, thousands will fall in savage fighting across the fields and woods of middle Tennessee. The carnage will awaken the best in some men––courage, sacrifice, and honor; the worst in others––cruelty, cowardice, and depravity. In arenas dubbed “the Slaughter Pen” and “Hell’s Half Acre,” the Blue and Gray are about to collide.

How long is Bright Starry Banner?

Bright Starry Banner by Alden R. Carter is 502 pages long, and a total of 126,504 words.

This makes it 169% the length of the average book. It also has 155% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Bright Starry Banner Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 31 minutes to read Bright Starry Banner aloud.

What Reading Level is Bright Starry Banner?

Bright Starry Banner is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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