The Chickamauga Campaign - A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22 - September 19, 1863 by Powell, David - 11/19/2014 12:00:01

Savas Beatie, 2014-11-19. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.8000 8.8000 6.2000. first edition, includes the dust jacket

Savas Beatie. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2017. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1611211743 . Stiff clean book in glossy dust jacket. About new. ; 6 X 1.5 X 9 inches; 696 pages; Chickamauga, according to soldier rumor, is a Cherokee word meaning "River of Death." It certainly lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged bloody combat along the banks of West Chickamauga Creek. Long considered a two-day affair, award-winning author David Powell embraces a fresh approach that explores Chickamauga as a three-day battle, with September 18 being key to understanding how the fighting developed the next morning. The second largest battle of the Civil War produced 35,000 casualties and one of the last, clear-cut Confederate tactical victories-a triumph that for a short time reversed a series of Rebel defeats and reinvigorated the hope for Southern independence. At issue was Chattanooga, the important… Read More

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