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    This Terrible Sound
    The Battle of Chickamauga

    Peter Cozzens (Author)

    9780252065941

    Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2016

    688 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 4.6 cm, 0.966 kg

    "Cozzens expertly renders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battle, capturing both the evolving strategies of each side and the horrendous experience of the fight. . . . [This book] is built upon a bonanza of primary research, with the author having combed hundreds of diaries, letters, memoirs, interviews, official reports, and regimental histories. The individual voices and the rich experiences they represent are unforgettably presented here… Five hundred thirty-six pages of the two-day Battle of Chickamauga? Thanks to Mr. Cozzens's bracing, vivid prose style and marvelous eye for personal detail, this reader hankered for even more."--David Haward Bain, New York Times Book Review
     
    "Cozzens magnificently conveys the madness of it all. He sketches dozens of biographies and quotes from letters and memoirs to give an intimate sense of how men acted in those days: the pompous, the sentimental, the fatalistic; the stalwarts who died with a one-liner; the thieves and clowns and quiet heroes in the ranks."--Michael Keman, Washington Post Book World
     

    "This massive volume is likely to remain the definitive account of the battle for a generation or more… It cannot be too highly recommended for Civil War collections."--Roland Green, ALA Booklist
     
    "Battle history as it was meant to be written. Mr. Cozzens has produced not only the definitive narrative account of Chickamauga but also one of the season's pre-eminent Civil War books."--Curt Johnson, Washington Times
     

    When North and South met among the desolate mountains of northwestern Georgia in 1863, they began one of the bloodiest and most decisive campaigns of the Civil War. The climactic Battle of Chickamauga lasted just two days, yet it was nearly as costly as Gettysburg, with casualties among the highest in the war.
     
    In this study of the campaign, the first to appear in over thirty years and the most comprehensive account ever written on Chickamauga, Peter Cozzens presents a vivid narrative about an engagement that was crucial to the outcome of the war in the West. Drawing upon a wealth of previously untapped sources, Cozzens offers startling new interpretations that challenge the conventional wisdom on key moments of the battle, such as Rosecrans's fateful order to General Wood and Thomas's historic defense of Horseshoe Ridge.
     
    Chickamauga was a battle of missed opportunities, stupendous tactical blunders, and savage fighting by the men in ranks. Cozzens writes movingly of both the heroism and suffering of the common soldiers and of the strengths and tragic flaws of their commanders. Enhanced by the detailed battle maps and original sketches by the noted artist Keith Rocco, this book will appeal to all Civil War enthusiasts and students of military history.
     

    Cover
    Title Page
    Copyright Page
    Table of Contents
    List of Maps
    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgments
    One / My Dear General, You are Thoroughly Outdone
    Two / Golden Moments are Passing
    Three / I Have Never Felt so Glad to be a Soldier
    Four / A Glimmer in the Twilight
    Five / We are in a Ticklish Place Here
    Six / Sounds of Ill Omen
    Seven / Withdraw if not Already Too Late
    Eight / They are Coming like a Pack of Wolves
    Nine / We Shall Soon be in it
    Ten / Give Help where it is Needed
    Eleven / A Bellyful of Fighting
    Twelve / They Skedaddled in Fine Style
    Thirteen / We Bury Our Dead
    Fourteen / The Night Seemed to Quake and Tremble
    Fifteen / If I Could Only Drown this Terrible Sound
    Sixteen / God Grant that it May be So
    Seventeen / If they Begin it, We will End it
    Eighteen / The Left must be Held
    Nineteen / To Fire at Those Breastworks Seemed Foolish
    Twenty / Gentlemen, I Hold the Fatal Order of the Day
    Twenty-One / All was a Sickening Confusion
    Twenty-Two / No More Show than a Broken-Backed Cat
    Twenty-Three / The Signs Grew Rapidly Worse
    Twenty-Four / They can Kill us, But Whip us Never
    Twenty-Five / Give us a Position to Hold
    Twenty-Six / Thomas is having a Hell of a Fight
    Twenty-Seven / A Few are Holding out up Yonder
    Twenty-Eight / I Never Saw Better Fighting
    Twenty-Nine / Don't waste any Cartridges Now, Boys
    Thirty / The Storm Broke Loose
    Thirty-One / God Help Me to Bear it Aright
    Thirty-Two / Denunciations Fierce and Strong
    Appendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chickamauga Campaign
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index
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