Chattanooga--a Death Grip on the ConfederacyUniv. of Tennessee Press, 1984 - 298 pages In the wake of the bloodshed at Chickamauga, the struggle for Chattanooga became a decisive engagement of the Civil War. McDonough reconstructs the siege and battles as they appeared to both Rebels and Yankees, giving the reader a front-row seat at one of the major dramas in American history. |
Contents
War Between the Generals | 20 |
Stunned Like a Duck Hit on the Head | 41 |
Rebels All Around | 61 |
Lookout Mountain from Union works | 75 |
Browns Ferry and Wauhatchie | 76 |
Landing for the Assault at Browns Ferry | 84 |
Bridging the Tennessee | 86 |
Our Position It Strikes Me Is Objectionable | 95 |
U S Troops atop Lookout Mountain | 141 |
Whiskey Was Not Enough | 143 |
General Patrick R Cleburne | 147 |
Colonel Hiram B Granbury | 148 |
All Hell Cant Stop Them | 161 |
Assaulting Missionary Ridge | 173 |
We Will Carry the Line | 181 |
General Phillip Sheridan | 190 |
General P G T Beauregard | 99 |
General James Longstreet | 103 |
General William J Hardee | 105 |
Tell Cleburne We Are To Fight | 117 |
General William T Sherman | 121 |
Moccasin Bend from Lookout Mountain | 136 |
General R W Johnson | 192 |
Missionary Ridge about the turn of the century | 203 |
The Whole Army Is in Retreat | 206 |
General Benjamin Franklin Cheatham | 210 |
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