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This Grand Spectacle - The Battle of Chattanooga (Paperback)
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This Grand Spectacle - The Battle of Chattanooga (Paperback)
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List price R394
Loot Price R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
You Save R45 (11%)
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During the summer of 1863, Federal Forces scored major victories at
Gettysburg and Vicksburg, turning the tide of war in favor of the
Union. In southeastern Tennessee, U.S. troops focused their
attention on the river and railroad center of Chattanooga, the
gateway to the Confederate heartland. They took the town with
little resistance, and complete victory in the region seemed
imminent. The Confederate under Braxton Bragg struck back. At
Chickamauga, in northern Georgia, veterans of both the Army of
Tennessee and the Army of Northern Virginia combined to mangle the
Union army, driving the shaken survivors back to their newly
captured base at Chattanooga. The victorious Confederates settled
into siege lines for the kill. A desperate Abraham Lincoln turned
to the hero of Vicksburg, General U.S. Grant, to lead the campaign
to save the trapped Union troops. A vivid account of how the union
snatched victory from the jaws of disaster. An excellent companion
volume to A Deep Steady Thunder: The Battle of Chickamauga by the
same author, and General James Longstreet in the West: A Monumental
Failure by Judith Hallock, both Civil War Campaigns and Commanders
titles. Steven Woodworth holds a Ph.D. from Rice University and is
assistant professor of history at Texas Christian University. He is
the award winning author of Jefferson Davis and His Generals, Davis
and Lee at War, and Six Armies in Tennessee.
General
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