The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga - Hardcover

Peter Cozzens

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252019229 ISBN 13: 9780252019227

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1994

Synopsis

The author brings to life the decisive Civil War battles around Chattanooga in 1863, detailing movements of individual regiments and revealing the impact of Chattanooga campaigns on the downfall of the South and outcome of the war. UP.

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From Booklist:

Cozzens follows up his magisterial account of the Battle of Chickamauga, This Terrible Sound (1992), with an equally authoritative study of the Chattanooga campaign that followed it. Braxton Bragg (who sometimes seems unfit to have been at large on the public streets, let alone commanding armies) failed to either destroy or starve out the Union Army of the Cumberland. In due course, superior Northern resources and strategy--not tactics; few generals on either side come out looking like good tacticians--progressively loosened the Confederate cordon around the city. Finally, the Union drove off Bragg's army entirely in the famous Battle of Missionary Ridge, which was a much more complex affair than previous, heroic accounts make it. Like its predecessor on Chickamauga, this is such a good book on Chattanooga that it's hard to believe any Civil War collection will need another book on the subject for at least a generation. Roland Green

Review:

"Beyond question the most thoroughly researched and well-written account of the loss of Chattanooga to date."--William C. Davis, publisher of Civil War Times Illustrated

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0252019229
• ISBN 13: 9780252019227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 515
• Illustrator: Keith Rocco