Peter Cozzens: The Shipwreck of Their Hopes

Cover: 9780252065958 | The Shipwreck of Their Hopes | The Battles for Chattanooga | Cozzens

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Civil War enthusiasts will welcome a new book by Peter Cozzens, author of two highly praised works on Civil War campaigns--No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. In The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, Cozzens fully chronicles one of the South's most humiliating defeats.

Über den Autor

Peter Cozzens, a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State, is the author of No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River, a selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club, and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga, the main selection of the History Book Club.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cover

Title Page

Dedication Page

Table of Contents

List of Maps

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

One / Changes of Vast Moment

Two / Starvation Camp

Three / Everyone Here Curses Bragg

Four / Audacity Might Yet Bring Us Through

Five / A Medal of Honor or Two Ears of Corn

Six / Our Lagging Efforts

Seven / The Chance of Success May Be Calculated at Zero

Eight / A Golden Thread through the Tangled Web

Nine / The Chair of Honor?

Ten / A Very Gallant Thing

Eleven / The Advantage Was Greatly on Our Side Now

Twelve / The Most Curious Battle of the War

Thirteen / Go in and Give 'Em Hell

Fourteen / The Shipwreck of their Hopes

Fifteen / Time is Everything

Sixteen / This Was Business

Seventeen / An Unusual Solemnity Pervades Our Ranks

Eighteen / We are All Officers Today

Nineteen / Almost Up, Sir

Twenty / Chickamauga, Damn You!

Twenty-One / We've Got 'Em in a Pen

Twenty-Two / Save Yourself! The Yankees Are on You!

Twenty-Three / We are Fighting the World

Twenty-Four / Whipped, Mortified, and Chagrined

Twenty-Five / They are Crowding Us

Twenty-Six / A Sad Affair

Twenty-Seven / The Fruits are Bitter

Appendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chattanooga Campaign

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1996
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780252065958
ISBN-10:	0252065956
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cozzens, Peter
Hersteller:	University of Illinois Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	227 x 152 x 31 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter Cozzens
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.1996
Gewicht:	0,703 kg