The Shipwreck of Their Hopes : THE BATTLES FOR CHATTANOOGA /
In The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, Cozzens draws on his acclaimed storytelling skills and exhaustive research efforts to fully chronicle one of the South's most humiliating defeats. As in his earlier books, he brings to life the officers and enlisted men who fought the war.
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[1994]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Changes of vast moment
- Starvation camp
- Everyone here curses Bragg
- Audacity might yet bring us through
- A medal of honor or two ears of corn
- Our lagging efforts
- The chance of success may be calculated at zero
- A golden thread through the tangled web
- The chair of honor?
- A very gallant thing
- The advantage was greatly on our side now
- The most curious battle of the war
- Go in and give 'em hell
- The shipwreck of their hopes
- Time is everything
- This was business
- An unusual solemnity pervades our rands
- We are all officers today
- Almost up, sir
- Chickamauga, damn you!
- We've got 'em in a pen
- Save yourself! The Yankees are on you!
- We are fighting the world
- Whipped, mortified, and chagrined
- They are crowding us
- A sad affair
- The fruits are bitter
- Appendix: The opposing forces in the Chattanooga campaign.