River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign: Volume 1: The Fall of Chattanooga (Civil War America) - Hardcover

Robertson, William Glenn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 146964312X ISBN 13: 9781469643120

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018

Synopsis

The Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's western theater. It pitted Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee against William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland and resulted in more than 34,500 casualties. In this first volume of an authoritative two-volume history of the Chickamauga Campaign, William Glenn Robertson provides a richly detailed narrative of military operations in southeastern and eastern Tennessee as two armies prepared to meet along the "River of Death." Robertson tracks the two opposing armies from July 1863 through Bragg's strategic decision to abandon Chattanooga on September 9. Drawing on all relevant primary and secondary sources, Robertson devotes special attention to the personalities and thinking of the opposing generals and their staffs. He also sheds new light on the role of railroads on operations in these landlocked battlegrounds, as well as the intelligence gathered and used by both sides.

Delving deep into the strategic machinations, maneuvers, and smaller clashes that led to the bloody events of September 19@–20, 1863, Robertson reveals that the road to Chickamauga was as consequential as the unfolding of the battle itself.

About this title

About the Author:

William Glenn Robertson retired as director of the Combat Studies Institute, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 2011.

Review:

Robertson's long-anticipated work is certain to become the "must read" book on the Chickamauga campaign. Based on decades of research and fieldwork, it is the most thoroughly investigated study of the most dramatic campaign of the Western theater.--Earl Hess, author of Fighting for Atlanta
There have been other accounts of the Chickamauga Campaign, but this book is in a class by itself. The wealth of information here is astonishing.--Steven E. Woodworth, author of Shiloh

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 146964312X
• ISBN 13: 9781469643120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 696