The Chickamauga Campaign_Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611213282 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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David Powell's The Chickamauga Campaign -- Book 3 "Barren Victory" is the final volume of historian David Powell's trilogy covering the Battle of Chickamauga of September 18 -- 20, 1863, the events leading up to the battle, and its aftermath. With the exception of Gettysburg, Chickamauga resulted in more casualties than any other Civil War battle. It was fought in northern Georgia between the Union's Army of the Cumberland, commanded by William Rosecrans and the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee, commanded by Braxton Bragg."Barren Victory" is a fitting title and an excellent concluding volume to the trilogy. The book differs fro. "Powell's trilogy is a Tour de Force" according to Clark A.. Powell completes the trilogy describing the aftermath of the bloodiest Civil War battle in the Western Theater. Did Braxton Bragg fail to deliver the Coup de Grace by driving the Army of The Cumberland from Chattanooga? Or was that impossible? Did William Starke Rosecrans panic and flee the Chickamauga Battlefield? Who plotted for Rosecrans removal as commander? Powell answers these questions with facts painstakingly uncovered during his nearly 20 years research into this campaign. Future historians and those digging for more information on the regiment their ancestors served i. James W. Durney said Excellent book. The third and final book in the Battle of Chickamauga trilogy covers the period when the South “lost” the battle.Taken with the author’s two other Chickamauga books, The Maps of Chickamauga and Failure in the Saddle, these five books are an important addition to our understanding of this battle.Of the five books, I feel this one makes the reader think about why things happened the way they did.We look at the politics of command; logistics, human failings and the aftermath of battle make some decisions that seem incomprehensible, understandable.Bragg and Rosecr
He is Vice President of Airsped, Inc., a specialized delivery firm. Powell is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (1983) with a BA in history. . The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle was published in 2014, and The Chickamauga Campaign: Glory or the Grave appeared in September, 2015. He has published numerous articles in various magazines, and more than fifteen historical simulations of different battles. The result of that stu
The narrative opens at dawn on Monday, September 21, 1863, with Union commander William S. Rosecrans in Chattanooga and most of the rest of his Federal army in Rossville, Georgia. Braxton Bragg has won the signal victory of his career, but has yet to fully grasp that fact or the fruits of his success. Glory or the Grave, the trilogy’s second volume, focused on September 20the decisive third day of fighting that included the Confederate breakthrough of the late morning and the desperate Union final stand on Horseshoe Ridge. In addition to carefully examining the decisions made by each army commander and their consequences, Powell sets forth the dreadful costs of the fighting in terms of the human suffering involved. Barren Victory is the third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign Trilogy, a comprehensive examination more than a decade in the making of one of the most important and complex military operations of the Civil War.The first installment, A Mad Irregular Battle, introduced readers to the major characters of this sweeping drama and carried them from the Union crossing of the Tennessee River in August 1863 up through the bloody but inconclusive combat of the first and second days of the battle (September 18 and 19,
. Powell is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute (1983) with a BA in history. The final volume, Barren Victory, is forthcoming in September 2016. He is Vice President of Airsped, Inc., a specialized delivery firm. The result of that study are the volumes, The Maps of Chickamauga (2009) Failure in the Saddle (2010) and the first two volumes of a Chickamauga trilogy. David and his wife Anne live and work in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. For the past decade, David's focus has been on the epic battle of Chickamauga, and