Battle Above the Clouds: Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16-November 24, 1863 - Couverture souple

Powell, David A

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611213770 ISBN 13 : 9781611213775

Editeur : Savas Beatie, 2017

Synopsis

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee. The Federals were surviving by the narrowest of margins, thanks only to a trickle of supplies painstakingly hauled over the sketchiest of mountain roads. Soon even those quarter-rations would not suffice. Disaster was in the offing.

Yet those Confederates, once jubilant at having routed the Federals at Chickamauga and driven them back into the apparent trap of Chattanooga's trenches, found their own circumstances increasingly difficult to bear. In the immediate aftermath of their victory, the South rejoiced; the Confederacy's own disasters of the previous summer--Vicksburg and Gettysburg--were seemingly reversed. Then came stalemate in front of those same trenches. The Confederates held the high ground, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, but they could not completely seal off Chattanooga from the north.

The Union responded. Reinforcements were on the way. A new man arrived to take command: Ulysses S. Grant. Confederate General Braxton Bragg, unwilling to launch a frontal attack on Chattanooga's defenses, sought victory elsewhere, diverting troops to East Tennessee.

Battle above the Clouds by David Powell recounts the first half of the campaign to lift the siege of Chattanooga, including the opening of the "cracker line," the unusual night battle of Wauhatchie, and one of the most dramatic battles of the entire war: Lookout Mountain.

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À propos des auteurs

David A. Powell is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (1983) with a BA in history. His work has appeared in many magazines and he has published more than 15 historical simulations. David's epic Chickamauga Campaign trilogy is both award-winning and legendary, and he is nationally recognized for his tours of that important battlefield. He is also the author of many books, including The Maps of Chickamauga and Failure in the Saddle. David and his wife Anne live with their brace of bloodhounds in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.

Author William Lee White has spent most of his life on the Chickamauga battlefield, taking thousands of visitors through the wooded landscape and telling the story of the bloodiest engagement in the Western Theater.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Savas Beatie
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611213770
• ISBN 13: 9781611213775
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible