Guide to the Battle of Chickamauga

by Matt Spruill (Editor)

Not far from Chattanooga in northern Georgia, the Confederacy won one of its most decisive battles. This guide uses first-hand accounts to illustrate how this skirmish, only two days long, turned into one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War with 34,000-plus Union and Confederate soldiers killed, wounded, or captured.

Eyewitness accounts by battle participants make these guides an invaluable resource for travelers and nontravelers who want a greater understanding of five of the most devastating yet influential years in our nation's history. Explicit directions to points of interest and maps--illustrating the action and showing the detail of troop position, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree lines as they were 130 years ago--help bring the battles to life. In the field, these guides can be used to recreate each battle's setting and proportions, giving the reader a sense of the tension and fear each soldier must have felt as he faced his enemy.

Genres: Civil War, History, War

328 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1993

Reviews

[William Olenick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Once again author Matt Sprill gives a great tour guide of a NPS battle site from the Civil War. As always he uses the participants reports to describe the action of the spot in which you have stopped. The guide does not always follow the Park Site tour.
Great read but the page count is a bit long for the paperback version.