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Mountains Touched with Fire - Chattanooga Besieged 1863

By: St. Martin's Press

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Reference Books (St. Martin's Press)


Product Info

Title
Mountains Touched with Fire - Chattanooga Besieged 1863
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
1995
Dimensions
6x9x1"
NKG Part #
2148138894
Type
Softcover

Description

It was one of the most startling events of the civil war, the "hour of destiny" for the Union. Faced with the prospect of catastrophic defeat, the North's greatest generals--Ulysses Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Thomas, and Phil Sheridan--were commanding a battle for the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Suddenly, as an aghast Grant and Thomas watched, the beleaguered federal troops began a headlong, climactic, seemingly suicidal charge up the face of a six-hundred-foot-high mountain ridge overlooking the city, under ferocious fire from the Confederate infantry that held the ridge.