Guide to the Battle of Chickamauga (The U.S. Army War College 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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

Matt Spruill is a retired U.S. Army colonel and is the author of Storming the Heights: A Guide to the Battle of Chattanooga as well as numerous other books on the Civil War.

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