Peter Cozzens

The Shipwreck of Their Hopes

The Battles for Chattanooga

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Produktbeschreibung

Civil War enthusiasts will welcome a new book by Peter Cozzens, author of two highly praised works on Civil War campaigns--No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. In The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, Cozzens fully chronicles one of the South's most humiliating defeats.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780252065958
• ISBN-10: 0252065956
• Artikelnr.: 21829845

Autorenporträt

Peter Cozzens

Inhaltsangabe

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
One / Changes of Vast Moment
Two / Starvation Camp
Three / Everyone Here Curses Bragg
Four / Audacity Might Yet Bring Us Through
Five / A Medal of Honor or Two Ears of Corn
Six / Our Lagging Efforts
Seven / The Chance of Success May Be Calculated at Zero
Eight / A Golden Thread through the Tangled Web
Nine / The Chair of Honor?
Ten / A Very Gallant Thing
Eleven / The Advantage Was Greatly on Our Side Now
Twelve / The Most Curious Battle of the War
Thirteen / Go in and Give 'Em Hell
Fourteen / The Shipwreck of their Hopes
Fifteen / Time is Everything
Sixteen / This Was Business
Seventeen / An Unusual Solemnity Pervades Our Ranks
Eighteen / We are All Officers Today
Nineteen / Almost Up, Sir
Twenty / Chickamauga, Damn You!
Twenty-One / We've Got 'Em in a Pen
Twenty-Two / Save Yourself! The Yankees Are on You!
Twenty-Three / We are Fighting the World
Twenty-Four / Whipped, Mortified, and Chagrined
Twenty-Five / They are Crowding Us
Twenty-Six / A Sad Affair
Twenty-Seven / The Fruits are Bitter
Appendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chattanooga Campaign
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author