During the summer of 1863 Union forces scored major victories on several fronts. In southeastern Tennessee, they focused their attention on the river and railroad center of Chattanooga, the gateway to the Confederate heartland. They took the town with little resistance in August, and complete victory in the region seemed imminent.
    Then in September the Confederates under Braxton Bragg struck back. At Chickamauga, in northern Georgia, veterans of both the Army of Tennessee and the Army of Northern Virginia combined to mangle the Union army, driving the shaken survivors back to their newly captured base at Chattanooga. Then the victorious Confederates closed in for the kill.
    In October a frustrated Abraham Lincoln turned to the hero of Vicksburg, Major General Ulysses S. Grant, to lead the campaign to save the trapped Union troops.
    This vivid account of how the Union snatched victory from the jaws of disaster at Chattanooga is an excellent companion volume to A Deep Steady Thunder .

hardback or paper, 136 pages, 17 photographs and 7 maps

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