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Deep Steady Thunder: The Battle of Chickamauga (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series)

by Steven E. Woodworth

A Note on the Series Few segments of America’s past excite more interest than Civil War battles and leaders. This ongoing series of brief, lively, and authoritative books-“Civil War Campaign and Commanders”-salutes the passion with inexpensive and accurate accounts that are readable in a sitting. Each volume, separate and complete in itself, nevertheless conveys the agony, glory, death, and wreckage that defined America’s greatest tragedy. In this series designed for Civil War enthusiasts as well as the newly recruited, emphasis is on telling good stories. Photographs and biographical sketches enhance the narrative of each book, and maps depict events as they happened. Sound history is meshed with the dramatic in a format that is just lengthy enough to inform and yet satisfy. Grady McWhiney, General Editor