Guide to the Battle of Chickamauga (Guides to Civil War Battles) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700605959 ISBN 13: 9780700605958

Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 1993

Synopsis

Not far from Chattanooga in northern Georgia, the Confederacy won one of its most decisive battles. This guide uses first-hand accounts to illustrate how this skirmish, only two days long, turned into one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War with 34,000--plus Union and Confederate soldiers killed, wounded, or captured. Eyewitness accounts by battle participants make these guides an invaluable resource for travelers and nontravelers who want a greater understanding of five of the most devastating yet influential years in our nation's history. Explicit directions to points of interest and maps--illustrating the action and showing the detail of troop position, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree lines as they were 130 years ago--help bring the battles to life. In the field, these guides can be used to recreate each battle's setting and proportions, giving the reader a sense of the tension and fear each soldier must have felt as he faced his enemy.

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Review

"Colonel Spruill has over time become one of our best tour guides for Civil War battlefields, and it all started with his Guide to the Battle of Chickamauga back in the 1990s. Now thoroughly updated and revised to assimilate the modern changes to the battlefield as well as the newer scholarship on the battle, this second edition is extremely valuable for a detailed understanding of both the battle and the battlefield."--Timothy B. Smith, author of Shiloh: Conquer or Perish and Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson

"This updated guide makes traveling across the landscape on this pivotal battlefield in the Civil War's Western Theater easier and more understandable. One can almost sense the confusion of the unfolding engagement as the contending forces grappled with each other for control of the key elements of this critical ground."--Brian S. Wills, author of George Henry Thomas: As True as Steel

Synopsis

Near Chattanooga in northern Georgia, the Confederacy won one of its most decisive battles. This guide uses first-hand accounts to illustrate how this skirmish turned into one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, with over 34,000 Union and Confederate troops being killed, wounded or captured.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0700605959
• ISBN 13: 9780700605958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Spruill Matt