This Terrible Sound
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This Terrible Sound

The Battle of Chickamauga

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eBook - ePub

This Terrible Sound

The Battle of Chickamauga

About this book

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.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Maps
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. One / My Dear General, you are Thoroughly Outdone
  9. Two / Golden Moments are Passing
  10. Three / I have Never Felt so Glad to be a Soldier
  11. Four / A Glimmer in the Twilight
  12. Five / We are in a Ticklish Place Here
  13. Six / Sounds of ill Omen
  14. Seven / Withdraw if not already too Late
  15. Eight / They are Coming like a Pack of Wolves
  16. Nine / We shall Soon be in It
  17. Ten / Give Help where it is Needed
  18. Eleven / A Bellyful of Fighting
  19. Twelve / They Skedaddled in fine Style
  20. Thirteen / We Bury Our Dead
  21. Fourteen / The Night Seemed to Quake and Tremble
  22. Fifteen / If I could Only Drown this Terrible Sound
  23. Sixteen / God Grant it may be So
  24. Seventeen / If they Begin it, We will End It
  25. Eighteen / The Left must be Held
  26. Nineteen / To Fire at those Breastworks Seemed Foolish
  27. Twenty / Gentlemen, I Hold the Fatal Order of the Day
  28. Twenty-One / All was a Sickening Confusion
  29. Twenty-Two / No More Show than a Broken-Backed Cat
  30. Twenty-Three / The Signs Grew Rapidly Worse
  31. Twenty-Four / They can kill us, but Whip us Never
  32. Twenty-Five / Give us a Position to Hold
  33. Twenty-Six / Thomas is having a Hell of a Fight
  34. Twenty-Seven / A Few are Holding Out up Yonder
  35. Twenty-Eight / I Never Saw Better Fighting
  36. Twenty-Nine / Don't Waste any Cartridges now, Boys
  37. Thirty / The Storm Broke Loose
  38. Thirty-One / God Help me to Bear it Aright
  39. Thirty-Two / Denunciations Fierce and Strong
  40. Appendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chickamauga Campaign
  41. Notes
  42. Bibliography
  43. Index