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Author Cozzens, Peter, 1957-

Title This terrible sound : the battle of Chickamauga / Peter Cozzens ; illustrations by Keith Rocco.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1992]
©1992

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  973.735 COZZENS    Check Shelf
Description xii, 675 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [621]-645) and index.
Contents My dear general, you are thoroughly outdone -- Golden moments are passing -- I have never felt so glad to be a soldier -- A glimmer in the twilight -- We are in a ticklish place here -- Sounds of ill omen -- Withdraw if not already too late -- They are coming like a pack of wolves -- We shall soon be in it -- Give help where it is needed -- A bellyful of fighting -- They skedaddled in fine style -- We bury our dead -- The night seemed to quake and tremble -- If I could only drown this terrible sound -- God grant it may be so -- If they begin it, we will end it -- The left must be held -- To fire at those breastwords seemed foolish -- Gentlmen, I hold the fatal order of the day -- All was a sickening confusion -- No more show than a broken-backed cat -- The signs grew rapidly worse -- They can kill us, but whip us never -- Give us a position to hold -- Thomas is having a hell of a fight -- A few are holding out up yonder -- I never saw better fighting -- Don't waste any cartridges now, boys -- The storm broke loose -- God hlep me to bear it aright -- Denunciations fierce and strong -- Appendix: The opposing forces in the Chickamauga campaign.
Subject Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863.
Added Title Battle of Chickamauga
ISBN 025201703X (acid-free paper)
9780252017032 (acid-free paper)
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