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Chickamauga: A Novel of the American Civil War
Paperback
Series: American Civil War Stories, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781500715823
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Aug 2 2014
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.24
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
September 1863. In the tangled woods and farm fields of north Georgia, the Union and Confederate armies are about to collide in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War. When it is over, more than thirty four thousand men will be dead, wounded, or missing.
On September 18, 1863, the quiet fields along Chickamauga Creek become a killing ground that will help decide the fate of the western war. Over two horrific days, Federal and Confederate soldiers fight, fall, and vanish into the smoke and confusion of one of the most brutal engagements of the Civil War.
From the cold eyed cunning of Confederate cavalry legend Nathan Bedford Forrest to two Indiana privates clinging to a trench on Horseshoe Ridge, Chickamauga plunges you into the battle line by line and hour by hour. You march with men who do not yet know they are walking into a slaughter, and you stand with them as the woods erupt in musket fire and artillery.
Inside the Confederate high command, General Braxton Bragg feuds bitterly with his own officers even as he tries to crush the Union army. On the Union side, General George Thomas makes a desperate stand on Snodgrass Hill, holding long enough to save a shattered Federal force from complete annihilation.
Blair Howard's powerful Civil War novel combines vivid historical detail with the urgency of a frontline memoir. You smell the black powder, hear the screams, and feel the chaos as orders are shouted, misheard, or never arrive at all.
History remembers the generals. Chickamauga: A Novel of the American Civil War tells the story of the men who stood beside them, the cavalry scouts and foot soldiers who face the enemy at ten paces, the young recruits and hardened veterans thrown into dense woods and blind panic, and the ordinary farm boys who become heroes or simply disappear in the smoke.
Perfect for readers who enjoy Civil War novels based on real battles and accurate history, gritty character driven military fiction set in the Western Theater, and epic battle narratives in the tradition of classic historical war stories. Step onto the field at Chickamauga and experience one of the most devastating clashes of the Civil War through the eyes of the men who survived it, and those who did not.
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