Gateway to the Confederacy: New Perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, 1862-1863 - Hardcover

Bonds, Russell S.; Cushman, Stephen; Janney, Caroline; Powell, David; Prokopowicz, Gerald; Robertson, William Glenn; Symonds, Craig L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807155098 ISBN 13: 9780807155097

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

A collection of ten new essays from some of our finest Civil War historians working today, Gateway to the Confederacy offers a reexamination of the campaigns fought to gain possession of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Each essay addresses how Americans have misconstrued the legacy of these struggles and why scholars feel it necessary to reconsider one of the most critical turning points of the American Civil War.

The first academic analysis that delineates all three Civil War campaigns fought from 1862 to 1863 for control of Chattanooga -- the trans-portation hub of the Confederacy and gateway to the Deep South -- this book deals not only with military operations but also with the campaigns' origins and consequences. The essays also explore the far-reaching social and political implications of the battles and bring into sharp focus their impact on postwar literature and commemoration. Several chapters revise the traditional portraits of both famous and con-troversial figures including Ambrose Bierce and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Others investigate some of the more salient moments of these cam-paigns such as the circumstances that allowed for the Confederate breakthrough assault at Chickamauga.

Gateway to the Confederacy reassesses these pivotal battles, long in need of reappraisal, and breaks new ground as each scholar re-shapes a particular aspect of this momentous part of the Civil War.

CONTRIBUTORS

Russell S. Bonds Stephen Cushman Caroline E. Janney Evan C. Jones David A. Powell Gerald J. Prokopowicz William Glenn Robertson Wiley Sword Craig L. Symonds

Biografía del autor:

WILEY SWORD is the author of several books about the Civil War, including Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863.

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• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0807155098
• ISBN 13: 9780807155097
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Herausgeber: Jones Evan C., Sword Wiley