The Chickamauga campaign / edited by Steven E. Woodworth.
From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further Union advances. Meanwhile, Confederate re...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Carbondale, Ill. :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Civil War campaigns in the heartland.
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| Summary: | From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further Union advances. Meanwhile, Confederate reinforcements bolstered the numbers of the Army of Tennessee, and by the time the two armies met at the Battle of Chickamauga, in northern Georgia, the Confederates had gained numerical superiority. Although the Confederacy won its only major victory west of the Appalachians, it faile. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 199 pages) : map, plans. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780809385560 0809385562 1280697393 9781280697395 |