This Terrible Sound

by Cozzens, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780252065941
• ISBN10: 0252065948
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

A Main Selection of the History Book Club. "Expertly renders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battle capturing both the evolving strategies of each side and the horrendous experience of the fight. . . . [This book] is built upon a bonanza of primary research, with the author having combed hundreds of diaries, letters, memoirs, interviews, official reports and regimental histories. The individual voices and the rich experiences they represent are unforgettably presented here." -- New York Times Book Review

Table of Contents

List of Maps	ix
List of Illustrations	x
Acknowledgments	xi
My Dear General, You Are Thoroughly Outdone	1	(20)
Golden Moments Are Passing	21	(14)
I Have Never Felt So Glad to Be a Soldier	35	(26)
A Glimmer in the Twilight	61	(15)
We Are in a Ticklish Place Here	76	(25)
Sounds of Ill Omen	101	(20)
Withdraw If Not Already Too Late	121	(18)
They Are Coming Like a Pack of Wolves	139	(13)
We Shall Soon Be in It	152	(15)
Give Help Where It Is Needed	167	(29)
A Bellyful of Fighting	196	(34)
They Skedaddled in Fine Style	230	(16)
We Bury Our Dead	246	(17)
The Night Seemed to Quake and Tremble	263	(17)
If I Could Only Drown This Terrible Sound	280	(12)
God Grant It May Be So	292	(13)
If They Begin It, We Will End It	305	(14)
The Left Must Be Held	319	(19)
To Fire at Those Breastworks Seemed Foolish	338	(19)
Gentlemen, I Hold the Fatal Order of the Day	357	(11)
All Was a Sickening Confusion	368	(8)
No More Show Than a Broken-Backed Cat	376	(21)
The Signs Grew Rapidly Worse	397	(9)
They Can Kill Us, But Whip Us Never	406	(11)
Give Us a Position to Hold	417	(15)
Thomas Is Having a Hell of a Fight	432	(22)
A Few Are Holding Out Up Yonder	454	(9)
I Never Saw Better Fighting	463	(15)
Don't Waste Any Cartridges Now, Boys	478	(10)
The Storm Broke Loose	488	(22)
God Help Me to Bear It Aright	510	(12)
Denunciations Fierce and Strong	522	(15)
Appendix The Opposing Forces in the Chickamauga Campaign	537	(18)
Notes	555	(66)
Bibliography	621	(26)
Index	647