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Book SynopsisRenders 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 draws from hundreds of diaries, letters, memoirs, interviews, official reports, and regimental histories.
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Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyright PageTable of ContentsList of MapsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsOne / My Dear General, You are Thoroughly OutdoneTwo / Golden Moments are PassingThree / I Have Never Felt so Glad to be a SoldierFour / A Glimmer in the TwilightFive / We are in a Ticklish Place HereSix / Sounds of Ill OmenSeven / Withdraw if not Already Too LateEight / They are Coming like a Pack of WolvesNine / We Shall Soon be in itTen / Give Help where it is NeededEleven / A Bellyful of FightingTwelve / They Skedaddled in Fine StyleThirteen / We Bury Our DeadFourteen / The Night Seemed to Quake and TrembleFifteen / If I Could Only Drown this Terrible SoundSixteen / God Grant that it May be SoSeventeen / If they Begin it, We will End itEighteen / The Left must be HeldNineteen / To Fire at Those Breastworks Seemed FoolishTwenty / Gentlemen, I Hold the Fatal Order of the DayTwenty-One / All was a Sickening ConfusionTwenty-Two / No More Show than a Broken-Backed CatTwenty-Three / The Signs Grew Rapidly WorseTwenty-Four / They can Kill us, But Whip us NeverTwenty-Five / Give us a Position to HoldTwenty-Six / Thomas is having a Hell of a FightTwenty-Seven / A Few are Holding out up YonderTwenty-Eight / I Never Saw Better FightingTwenty-Nine / Don't waste any Cartridges Now, BoysThirty / The Storm Broke LooseThirty-One / God Help Me to Bear it ArightThirty-Two / Denunciations Fierce and StrongAppendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chickamauga CampaignNotesBibliographyIndex
