Word: chickamauga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Perspectives. This final installment opens on the battle of Fredericksburg and closes with Lincoln's assassination. "It was the heaviest bullet, all things considered," writes Catton, "ever fired in America." Wherever possible Catton finds new perspectives along that blood-soaked two-year trail. Of Chickamauga, he writes: "The Union government sent 37,000 soldiers to Tennessee: the Confederacy sent Jefferson Davis. The contrast does not reflect different ideas about what was needed: it simply measures the extent of the resources at hand. Each government did the most it could...
...privation, hardship and danger of the campaign for months on end, and to send to the illustrated newspapers that employed them rough and hasty sketches whose chief purpose was to cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox-at Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and the Wilderness-they recorded the bloody course of the conflict with a vitality that has earned them a unique and permanent place in the annals of the press...
...conflicts have made allies of the enemies of '45, and names like Okinawa and Iwo Jima already begin to seem almost as far away and long ago as Chickamauga and Antietam. It takes the death of the world's most powerful warship to bring out Samuel Eliot Morison's unrivaled gifts as a chronicler of the sea and thereby to sustain a grand narrative sweep through this 14th and final volume of his History of United States Naval Operations in World...