Civil War enthusiasts will welcome this concluding volume of Peter Cozzens's highly praised trilogy on the Civil War in the West.
The battle around Chattanooga in the late fall of 1863 were among the most decisive of the Civil War, opening the Deep South to the Union and setting the stage for the Atlanta campaign and the March to the Sea. After Chattanooga, the principal Confederate army in the West fought without spirit or hope of victory. Cozzens's comprehensive account details movements of individual regiments, even as it reveals the larger impact of the campaign on the outcome of the war.
In The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, Cozzens draws on his acclaimed storytelling skills and exhaustive research efforts to fully chronicle one of the South's most humiliating defeats. As in his earlier books, he brings to life the officers and enlisted men who fought the war.
| Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents List of Maps List of Illustrations Acknowledgments One / Changes of Vast Moment Two / Starvation Camp Three / Everyone Here Curses Bragg Four / Audacity Might Yet Bring Us Through Five / A Medal of Honor or Two Ears of Corn Six / Our Lagging Efforts Seven / The Chance of Success May Be Calculated at Zero Eight / A Golden Thread through the Tangled Web Nine / The Chair of Honor? Ten / A Very Gallant Thing Eleven / The Advantage Was Greatly on Our Side Now Twelve / The Most Curious Battle of the War Thirteen / Go in and Give 'Em Hell Fourteen / The Shipwreck of their Hopes Fifteen / Time is Everything Sixteen / This Was Business Seventeen / An Unusual Solemnity Pervades Our Ranks Eighteen / We are All Officers Today Nineteen / Almost Up, Sir Twenty / Chickamauga, Damn You! Twenty-One / We've Got 'Em in a Pen Twenty-Two / Save Yourself! The Yankees Are on You! Twenty-Three / We are Fighting the World Twenty-Four / Whipped, Mortified, and Chagrined Twenty-Five / They are Crowding Us Twenty-Six / A Sad Affair Twenty-Seven / The Fruits are Bitter Appendix / The Opposing Forces in the Chattanooga Campaign Notes Bibliography Index About the Author |"Beyond question the most thoroughly researched and well-written account of the loss of Chattanooga to date."—William C. Davis, publisher of Civil War Times Illustrated|Peter Cozzens, a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State, is the author of No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River, a selection of both the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club, and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga, the main selection of the History Book Club.
