Peter Cozzens, a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State, is the author of No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River, a selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club, and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga, the main selection of the History Book Club.

"Beyond question the most thoroughly researched and well-written account of the loss of Chattanooga to date."--William C. Davis, publisher of Civil War Times Illustrated

• CoverTitle PageCopyright PageDedication PageTable of ContentsList of MapsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsOne / Changes of Vast MomentTwo / Starvation CampThree / Everyone Here Curses BraggFour / Audacity Might Yet Bring Us ThroughFive / A Medal of Honor or Two Ears of CornSix / Our Lagging EffortsSeven / The Chance of Success May Be Calculated at ZeroEight / A Golden Thread through the Tangled WebNine / The Chair of Honor?Ten / A Very Gallant ThingEleven / The Advantage Was Greatly on Our Side NowTwelve / The Most Curious Battle of the WarThirteen / Go in and Give 'Em HellFourteen / The Shipwreck of their HopesFifteen / Time is EverythingSixteen / This Was BusinessSeventeen / An Unusual Solemnity Pervades Our RanksEighteen / We are All Officers TodayNineteen / Almost Up, SirTwenty / Chickamauga, Damn You!Twenty-One / We've Got 'Em in a PenTwenty-Two / Save Yourself! The Yankees Are on You!Twenty-Three / We are Fighting the WorldTwenty-Four / Whipped, Mortified, and ChagrinedTwenty-Five / They are Crowding UsTwenty-Six / A Sad AffairTwenty-Seven / The Fruits are BitterAppendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chattanooga CampaignNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Peter Cozzens, a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State, is the author of No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River, a selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club, and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga, the main selection of the History Book Club.

"Beyond question the most thoroughly researched and well-written account of the loss of Chattanooga to date."--William C. Davis, publisher of Civil War Times Illustrated

• CoverTitle PageCopyright PageDedication PageTable of ContentsList of MapsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsOne / Changes of Vast MomentTwo / Starvation CampThree / Everyone Here Curses BraggFour / Audacity Might Yet Bring Us ThroughFive / A Medal of Honor or Two Ears of CornSix / Our Lagging EffortsSeven / The Chance of Success May Be Calculated at ZeroEight / A Golden Thread through the Tangled WebNine / The Chair of Honor?Ten / A Very Gallant ThingEleven / The Advantage Was Greatly on Our Side NowTwelve / The Most Curious Battle of the WarThirteen / Go in and Give 'Em HellFourteen / The Shipwreck of their HopesFifteen / Time is EverythingSixteen / This Was BusinessSeventeen / An Unusual Solemnity Pervades Our RanksEighteen / We are All Officers TodayNineteen / Almost Up, SirTwenty / Chickamauga, Damn You!Twenty-One / We've Got 'Em in a PenTwenty-Two / Save Yourself! The Yankees Are on You!Twenty-Three / We are Fighting the WorldTwenty-Four / Whipped, Mortified, and ChagrinedTwenty-Five / They are Crowding UsTwenty-Six / A Sad AffairTwenty-Seven / The Fruits are BitterAppendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chattanooga CampaignNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Peter Cozzens, a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State, is the author of No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River, a selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club, and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga, the main selection of the History Book Club.

"Beyond question the most thoroughly researched and well-written account of the loss of Chattanooga to date."--William C. Davis, publisher of Civil War Times Illustrated

• CoverTitle PageCopyright PageDedication PageTable of ContentsList of MapsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsOne / Changes of Vast MomentTwo / Starvation CampThree / Everyone Here Curses BraggFour / Audacity Might Yet Bring Us ThroughFive / A Medal of Honor or Two Ears of CornSix / Our Lagging EffortsSeven / The Chance of Success May Be Calculated at ZeroEight / A Golden Thread through the Tangled WebNine / The Chair of Honor?Ten / A Very Gallant ThingEleven / The Advantage Was Greatly on Our Side NowTwelve / The Most Curious Battle of the WarThirteen / Go in and Give 'Em HellFourteen / The Shipwreck of their HopesFifteen / Time is EverythingSixteen / This Was BusinessSeventeen / An Unusual Solemnity Pervades Our RanksEighteen / We are All Officers TodayNineteen / Almost Up, SirTwenty / Chickamauga, Damn You!Twenty-One / We've Got 'Em in a PenTwenty-Two / Save Yourself! The Yankees Are on You!Twenty-Three / We are Fighting the WorldTwenty-Four / Whipped, Mortified, and ChagrinedTwenty-Five / They are Crowding UsTwenty-Six / A Sad AffairTwenty-Seven / The Fruits are BitterAppendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chattanooga CampaignNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author