
The Fall of Chattanooga
River of Death: The Chickamauga Campaign, Volume 1
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Jonathan Yen
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.
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Excellent account of the Chattanooga Campaign.
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In the beginning, thought I might quit; did I have to know every officer above captain and a lot of the captains, too? Do I have to know all the brigades, all the divisions, and where every single one is located over two weeks? And where is Tracy City, anyway? (Found it eventually.) Across the river , almost every soldier goes touristing in that cave? (Whoops; lost another one down the crevices in the floor! What a way to become a Cvil War casualty: fallen while touristing.) And there’s Rosecrans crawling out of the cave mouth on his hands and knees, all sweaty!
I ended up really, really liking the book. The battle is in the detail. Minutiae that seem forced and repetitive when I started became more and more what is making the battle. So the generals are squabbling with each other in their battle commands; so what? So here’s the text of fifteen different communications in a row; why is that? Nobody’s really even fighting yet.
Then Chickamauga starts to loom and the penny drops: generals squabbling, communications crossing each other, orders phrased and rephrased, Rosecrans exploding at people more and more and tearing them down publicly. All narrowing down to one order, one response to that order, one unseen army getting ready to attack. And Death walks onto the field.
Where is Volume 2?!
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If like me you’ve grown tired of circular referencing and want to learn something new, look no further.
Still, the magic of this book is that if you know little and care less about the War I think you will nevertheless find it engrossing. It is more than anything a story about people and the author has gone to heroic lengths to place the reader in the shoes, if they have shoes, and often in the heads of the participants. He does this far more with facts than conclusions which is always refreshing.
Refreshing
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Worth the Wait!
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The narrator is excellent, his tempo and diction are perfect for the material and he has the gravitas required for this type of book . He actually knows how to pronounce both place & peoples names which has been a problem in some history books,
Highly Detailed Account of the War in the West
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