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Title: The Chattanooga Campaign
Subtitle: Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland
Author: Steven E. Woodworth (editor), Charles D. Grear (editor)
Narrator: Don Coltrane
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-28-14
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
When the Confederates emerged as victors in the Chickamauga Campaign, the Union Army of the Cumberland lay under siege in Chattanooga, with Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee on nearby high ground at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. A win at Chattanooga was essential for the Confederates, both to capitalize on the victory at Chickamauga and to keep control of the gateway to the lower South. Should the Federal troops wrest control of that linchpin, they would cement their control of eastern Tennessee and gain access to the Deep South. In the fall 1863 Chattanooga Campaign, the new head of the western Union armies, Ulysses S. Grant, sought to break the Confederate siege. His success created the opportunity for the Union to start a campaign to capture Atlanta the following spring.
Woodworth's introduction sets the stage for 10 insightful essays that provide new analysis of this crucial campaign. From the Battle of Wauhatchie to the Battle of Chattanooga, the contributors' well-researched and vividly written assessments of both Union and Confederate actions offer a balanced discussion of the complex nature of the campaign and its aftermath. Other essays give fascinating examinations of the reactions to the campaign in northern newspapers and by Confederate soldiers from west of the Mississippi River.
Authors include Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear, Stewart L. Bennett, Sam Davis Elliott, Alexander Mendoza, Brooks D. Simpson, Timothy B. Smith, Ethan S. Rafuse, John R. Lundberg, and Justin S. Skolnick.
Members Reviews:
Well done
This is a well done book. The concept is that several different historians each provide a chapter about some aspect of the campaign, which I find to be a really great idea.
Some of the chapters are of very high quality. I was especially impressed by Chapter 5 - What Happened on Orchard Knob by Brooks Simpson. Primary accounts of the battle of Chattanooga are not all consistent and at times there were agendas at play. Professor Simpson does an excellent job of presenting the different versions of events, providing some context, and laying out his synthesis. He points out that "Many readers of Civil War literature want narrators to simply tell them what happened, as if that act in itself does not involve some sort of selection and interpretation." By approaching the subject in the way he does, he exposes the selection and interpretation process which I found gave me greater insight than simply retelling a version of events.
I did not give this 5 stars because not all of the chapters are of equal quality, there are a few minor errors that should have been caught by an editor, and I didn't care for the maps.
Buy it
Informative,well researched , balanced and easy to read.
THE CHATTANOOGA CAMPAIGN. STEVEN E. WOODWORTH
This book, by an established and well respected Civil War writer and many others, clearly identifies why this campaign was a "must win" for the Confederacy. It clearly demonstrates what serious problems disorganised leadership can produce, and, in warfare, that can be disasterous. Chickamauga thrown away.
The Big Picture: A 360 Degree View of the Chattanooga Campaign
Sometimes an event is so complex that a single narrative explaining what happed or a single viewpoint from which to view the event is not the best way to tell its story.
