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Chickamauga and Chattanooga: The Battles That Doomed the Confederacy (Paperback)

by John Bowers (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)


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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
In this slim book, Tennessee-born novelist and historian Bowers returns to the source of boyhood memories and family lore to make big claims about the sites of two Tennessee battles in the Civil War. Bowers writes drums-and-powder history, with overmuch attention to generals and tactics and little on men and the meaning of combat. Despite Bowers's assertion that Confederate defeat in Tennessee sealed the South's doom and his absurd speculation that a more favorable result there might have led to a negotiated peace, he provides little context to show how or why the battles might have mattered in the larger strategy and psychology of the war. A few deftly executed vignettes of generals (with Braxton Bragg again getting his comeuppance) redeem an otherwise flat narrative that offers neither sufficient new information nor insight to justify its purchase by any but the most assiduous collector.
Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist
This slim, eminently readable book by an established novelist and historian covers the two major battles of the Tennessee campaign in the fall of 1863. The Confederacy then had its last clear chance to reverse the course of the war. But its army proceeded to throw away what might have been a decisive victory at Chickamauga and was then driven from Tennessee at Chattanooga (the best-known episode of which is the Battle of Missionary Ridge). Bowers gives us almost straight narrative history, providing little background and less analysis but many memorable pen portraits of specific units and commanders (he adds notably to the well-deserved scorn heaped on Braxton Bragg). Although it may not adhere to the strictest academic canons for Civil War historiography, this volume is far too much fun not to recommend warmly. Roland Green --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0380725096
  • ISBN-13: 978-0380725090
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,186,738 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Also Available in: Hardcover (1st ed) |  All Editions