Chickamauga Trying to understand Chickamauga...

[JCM6395]

Cozzens book is great....like it was mentioned the book gets confusing somewhat....but that's because the battle was one big...I'll keep it clean here....confusing mess. I went on a historian led tour of Chickamauga in September. It helped a lot, but its no wonder Rosecrans was confused on the second day.

I had ancestors on both sides and in the Vinniard Field they most likely were shooting at each other. Walking that field trying to imagine the carnage there was sobering.

 

[James N.]

Since nobody's managed yet to mention it, Glenn Tucker's book Chickamauga - Bloody Battle in the West is considered the "classic" study and is still in print and available at the NPS Visitor Center. It's probably out-of-fashion though, because it's "old" ( 1961 ) - like me!

 

[JCM6395]

Thanks James N., I'm always looking for a good Civil War book....I will check this out.

 

[Missouri 1st]

I used Maps of Gettysburg while reading Coddington, but was a little disappointed. Not because it isn't a great resource, but because the maps were broken down too much in my opinion. I didn't get as good a feel for battle as the "view" was too narrow making harder to tie the individual maps to the bigger picture. My opinion only, and I know you cannot have everything. It is great if your concentrating only on Barksdale's Charge for instance. This may be an advantage, though, for Chickamauga.

I really like the maps that Rhea uses, clean and clear IMO. His narrative is excellent as well and I got a great feel for The Wilderness. When I read it, it was by itself and thrown in between books on WWII, with a lot less understanding of The WBtS.

It's probably out-of-fashion though, because it's "old" ( 1961 ) - like me!

Well...your portrait does not help dispell that image!

 

[lwhite64]

Unfortunately with Morningside Books going out of business it seems Tucker will be out of print. We are sold out and are not able to reorder now.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Unfortunately with Morningside Books going out of business

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[diane]

Since nobody's managed yet to mention it, Glenn Tucker's book Chickamauga - Bloody Battle in the West is considered the "classic" study and is still in print and available at the NPS Visitor Center. It's probably out-of-fashion though, because it's "old" ( 1961 ) - like me!

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I don't know about out of date - my great-grandmother toted some very old encyclopedias out from Virginia when she came out here. They had some very good information from 'the horse's mouth' since many informants from the CW were quite alive at the time the set was compiled. These little gems were great because they also contained stories and anecdotes about people like Lee and Longstreet and so on that I haven't found elsewhere.