An account of this decisive Civil War battle, which pitted the Union Army of the Cumberland against Confederate General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennesse Renders the furious ebb and flow of the two-day battle, capturing both the evolving strategies of each side and the horrendous experience of the fight. This book draws from hundreds of diaries, letters, memoirs, interviews, official reports, and regimental histories. List of Maps ix List of Illustrations x Acknowledgments xi My Dear General, You Are Thoroughly Outdone 1(20) Golden Moments Are Passing 21(14) I Have Never Felt So Glad to Be a Soldier 35(26) A Glimmer in the Twilight 61(15) We Are in a Ticklish Place Here 76(25) Sounds of Ill Omen 101(20) Withdraw If Not Already Too Late 121(18) They Are Coming Like a Pack of Wolves 139(13) We Shall Soon Be in It 152(15) Give Help Where It Is Needed 167(29) A Bellyful of Fighting 196(34) They Skedaddled in Fine Style 230(16) We Bury Our Dead 246(17) The Night Seemed to Quake and Tremble 263(17) If I Could Only Drown This Terrible Sound 280(12) God Grant It May Be So 292(13) If They Begin It, We Will End It 305(14) The Left Must Be Held 319(19) To Fire at Those Breastworks Seemed Foolish 338(19) Gentlemen, I Hold the Fatal Order of the Day 357(11) All Was a Sickening Confusion 368(8) No More Show Than a Broken-Backed Cat 376(21) The Signs Grew Rapidly Worse 397(9) They Can Kill Us, But Whip Us Never 406(11) Give Us a Position to Hold 417(15) Thomas Is Having a Hell of a Fight 432(22) A Few Are Holding Out Up Yonder 454(9) I Never Saw Better Fighting 463(15) Don't Waste Any Cartridges Now, Boys 478(10) The Storm Broke Loose 488(22) God Help Me to Bear It Aright 510(12) Denunciations Fierce and Strong 522(15) Appendix The Opposing Forces in the Chickamauga Campaign 537(18) Notes 555(66) Bibliography 621(26) Index 647