A Deep Steady Thunder

In September 1863 Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans drives into Georgia flanking Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg out of Chattanooga. Bragg heavily reinforced turns on Rosecrans and nearly traps him before he can fall back. The two great armies finally meet at Chickamauga. Through woods and small clearings a confused but vicious battle rages as each army gropes and grapples at the other trying to find the enemy''s flanks. At nightfall Rosecrans holds his ground and continues to slide his army northward to Chattanooga. The following morning however Bragg launches an attack that catches Rosecrans in the midst of a clumsy readjustment of his lines. Half the Union Army is crushed and sent streaming back to Chattanooga. The other half led by the redoubtable George H. Thomas stands firm weathers furious day-long assaults and salvages honor and survival for the beaten Union Army.A brief fast-moving colorful account of one of the biggest and bloodiest battles of the Civil War by a widely published historian.