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Title:

Gateway to the Confederacy : new perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, 1862-1863 / edited by Evan C. Jones and Wiley Sword.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 323 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863.
Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863.
Chattanooga Region (Tenn.)--History, Military--19th century.

Other Authors:

Jones, Evan C., 1980- editor.
Sword, Wiley, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"The funnel of the universe": the Chattanooga country and the Civil War / Russell S. Bonds -- Last chance for a short war: Don Carlos Buell and the Chattanooga Campaign of 1862 / Gerald J. Prokopowicz -- A legend in the making: Nathan Bedford Forrest at Chickamauga / David A. Powell -- Incubator of innovation: the Army of the Cumberland and the spirit of invention in 1863 / David A. Powell -- A tale of two orders: Chickamauga, September 20, 1863 / William Glenn Robertson -- War and politics: Jefferson Davis visits the Army of Tennessee / Craig L. Symonds -- A "Malignant vindictiveness": the two-decade rivalry between Ulysses S. Grant and William S. Rosecrans / Evan C. Jones -- "Our fireside in ruins": consequences of the 1863 Chattanooga Campaign / Wiley Sword -- Ambrose Bierce, Chickamauga, and ways to write history / Stephen Cushman -- No "Sickly sentimental gush": Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the limits of reconciliation / Caroline E. Janney.

ISBN:

0807155098 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807155097 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858914365

LCCN:

2013037866

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)