Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 515 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0252019229
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0252098498
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9780252019227
,
9780252098499
Content:
Civil War enthusiasts will welcome this concluding volume of Peter Cozzens's highly praised trilogy on the Civil War in the West
Content:
In The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, Cozzens draws on his acclaimed storytelling skills and exhaustive research efforts to fully chronicle one of the South's most humiliating defeats. As in his earlier books, he brings to life the officers and enlisted men who fought the war
Content:
The battles around Chattanooga in the late fall of 1863 were among the most decisive of the Civil War, opening the Deep South to the Union and setting the stage for the Atlanta campaign and the March to the Sea. After Chattanooga, the principal Confederate army in the West fought without spirit or hope of victory. Cozzens's comprehensive account details movements of individual regiments, even as it reveals the larger impact of the campaign on the outcome of the war
Content:
Changes of vast moment -- Starvation camp -- Everyone here curses Bragg -- Audacity might yet bring us through -- A medal of honor or two ears of corn -- Our lagging efforts -- The chance of success may be calculated at zero -- A golden thread through the tangled web -- The chair of honor? -- A very gallant thing -- The advantage was greatly on our side now -- The most curious battle of the war -- Go in and give 'em hell -- The shipwreck of their hopes -- Time is everything -- This was business -- An unusual solemnity pervades our rands -- We are all officers today -- Almost up, sir -- Chickamauga, damn you! -- We've got 'em in a pen -- Save yourself! The Yankees are on you! -- We are fighting the world -- Whipped, mortified, and chagrined -- They are crowding us -- A sad affair -- The fruits are bitter -- Appendix: The opposing forces in the Chattanooga campaign
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-496) and index
Additional Edition:
Print version Cozzens, Peter, 1957- Shipwreck of their hopes Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1994
Language:
English
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