Peter Cozzens: This Terrible Sound

Cover: 9780252065941 | This Terrible Sound | The Battle of Chickamauga | Peter Cozzens | Buch

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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 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.

Über den Autor

Peter Cozzens is a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State and the author of No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River and The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga. He has contributed articles to the Illinois Historical Journal and has written introductions to new editions of Thomas Van Horne's History of the Army of the Cumberland and Henry Cist's Army of the Cumberland.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cover

Title 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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780252065941
ISBN-10:	0252065948
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cozzens, Peter
Hersteller:	University of Illinois Press
Maße:	227 x 152 x 38 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter Cozzens
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.10.2016
Gewicht:	0,907 kg

Artikel-ID: 106831700