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When North and South met among the desolate mountains of northwestern Georgia in 1863, they began one of the bloodiest and most decisive campaigns of the Civil War. The climactic Battle of Chickamauga lasted just two days, yet it was nearly as costly as Gettysburg, with casualties among the highest in the war.
In this study of the campaign, the first to appear in over thirty years and the most comprehensive account ever written on Chickamauga, Peter Cozzens presents a vivid narrative about an engagement that was crucial to the outcome of the war in the West. Drawing upon a wealth of previously untapped sources, Cozzens offers startling new interpretations that challenge the conventional wisdom on key moments of the battle, such as Rosecrans's fateful order to General Wood and Thomas's historic defense of Horseshoe Ridge.
Chickamauga was a battle of missed opportunities, stupendous tactical blunders, and savage fighting by the men in ranks. Cozzens writes movingly of both the heroism and suffering of the common soldiers and of the strengths and tragic flaws of their commanders. Enhanced by the detailed battle maps and original sketches by the noted artist Keith Rocco, this book will appeal to all Civil War enthusiasts and students of military history.
| Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Maps List of Illustrations Acknowledgments One / My Dear General, You are Thoroughly Outdone Two / Golden Moments are Passing Three / I Have Never Felt so Glad to be a Soldier Four / A Glimmer in the Twilight Five / We are in a Ticklish Place Here Six / Sounds of Ill Omen Seven / Withdraw if not Already Too Late Eight / They are Coming like a Pack of Wolves Nine / We Shall Soon be in it Ten / Give Help where it is Needed Eleven / A Bellyful of Fighting Twelve / They Skedaddled in Fine Style Thirteen / We Bury Our Dead Fourteen / The Night Seemed to Quake and Tremble Fifteen / If I Could Only Drown this Terrible Sound Sixteen / God Grant that it May be So Seventeen / If they Begin it, We will End it Eighteen / The Left must be Held Nineteen / To Fire at Those Breastworks Seemed Foolish Twenty / Gentlemen, I Hold the Fatal Order of the Day Twenty-One / All was a Sickening Confusion Twenty-Two / No More Show than a Broken-Backed Cat Twenty-Three / The Signs Grew Rapidly Worse Twenty-Four / They can Kill us, But Whip us Never Twenty-Five / Give us a Position to Hold Twenty-Six / Thomas is having a Hell of a Fight Twenty-Seven / A Few are Holding out up Yonder Twenty-Eight / I Never Saw Better Fighting Twenty-Nine / Don't waste any Cartridges Now, Boys Thirty / The Storm Broke Loose Thirty-One / God Help Me to Bear it Aright Thirty-Two / Denunciations Fierce and Strong Appendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chickamauga Campaign Notes Bibliography Index | "Cozzens expertly renders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battle, capturing both the evolving strategies of each side and the horrendous experience of the fight. . . . [This book] is built upon a bonanza of primary research, with the author having combed hundreds of diaries, letters, memoirs, interviews, official reports, and regimental histories. The individual voices and the rich experiences they represent are unforgettably presented here... Five hundred thirty-six pages of the two-day Battle of Chickamauga? Thanks to Mr. Cozzens's bracing, vivid prose style and marvelous eye for personal detail, this reader hankered for even more."—David Haward Bain, New York Times Book Review
"Cozzens magnificently conveys the madness of it all. He sketches dozens of biographies and quotes from letters and memoirs to give an intimate sense of how men acted in those days: the pompous, the...
In this study of the campaign, the first to appear in over thirty years and the most comprehensive account ever written on Chickamauga, Peter Cozzens presents a vivid narrative about an engagement that was crucial to the outcome of the war in the West. Drawing upon a wealth of previously untapped sources, Cozzens offers startling new interpretations that challenge the conventional wisdom on key moments of the battle, such as Rosecrans's fateful order to General Wood and Thomas's historic defense of Horseshoe Ridge.
Chickamauga was a battle of missed opportunities, stupendous tactical blunders, and savage fighting by the men in ranks. Cozzens writes movingly of both the heroism and suffering of the common soldiers and of the strengths and tragic flaws of their commanders. Enhanced by the detailed battle maps and original sketches by the noted artist Keith Rocco, this book will appeal to all Civil War enthusiasts and students of military history.
| Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Maps List of Illustrations Acknowledgments One / My Dear General, You are Thoroughly Outdone Two / Golden Moments are Passing Three / I Have Never Felt so Glad to be a Soldier Four / A Glimmer in the Twilight Five / We are in a Ticklish Place Here Six / Sounds of Ill Omen Seven / Withdraw if not Already Too Late Eight / They are Coming like a Pack of Wolves Nine / We Shall Soon be in it Ten / Give Help where it is Needed Eleven / A Bellyful of Fighting Twelve / They Skedaddled in Fine Style Thirteen / We Bury Our Dead Fourteen / The Night Seemed to Quake and Tremble Fifteen / If I Could Only Drown this Terrible Sound Sixteen / God Grant that it May be So Seventeen / If they Begin it, We will End it Eighteen / The Left must be Held Nineteen / To Fire at Those Breastworks Seemed Foolish Twenty / Gentlemen, I Hold the Fatal Order of the Day Twenty-One / All was a Sickening Confusion Twenty-Two / No More Show than a Broken-Backed Cat Twenty-Three / The Signs Grew Rapidly Worse Twenty-Four / They can Kill us, But Whip us Never Twenty-Five / Give us a Position to Hold Twenty-Six / Thomas is having a Hell of a Fight Twenty-Seven / A Few are Holding out up Yonder Twenty-Eight / I Never Saw Better Fighting Twenty-Nine / Don't waste any Cartridges Now, Boys Thirty / The Storm Broke Loose Thirty-One / God Help Me to Bear it Aright Thirty-Two / Denunciations Fierce and Strong Appendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chickamauga Campaign Notes Bibliography Index | "Cozzens expertly renders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battle, capturing both the evolving strategies of each side and the horrendous experience of the fight. . . . [This book] is built upon a bonanza of primary research, with the author having combed hundreds of diaries, letters, memoirs, interviews, official reports, and regimental histories. The individual voices and the rich experiences they represent are unforgettably presented here... Five hundred thirty-six pages of the two-day Battle of Chickamauga? Thanks to Mr. Cozzens's bracing, vivid prose style and marvelous eye for personal detail, this reader hankered for even more."—David Haward Bain, New York Times Book Review
"Cozzens magnificently conveys the madness of it all. He sketches dozens of biographies and quotes from letters and memoirs to give an intimate sense of how men acted in those days: the pompous, the...