Word: chickamauga
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...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...
...agreed that there is nothing more beautiful than the Great Smokies when the rhododendron and the laurel are in bloom. They whispered in the cathedral silence of the towering rain forests of the Northwest. And they shivered a little as they summoned up the ghostly crash of battle at Chickamauga, Fredericksburg and Antietam...
Devoted Readers. The Confederacy took full advantage of such readymade intelligence. Southern sympathizers and agents floated copies of Northern newspapers down the Mississippi in bottles, or simply crossed the lines with them. Shortly before the battle of Chickamauga, Confederate General Braxton Bragg was delighted to read in the New York Times a story about a scheme for bluffing part of his forces out of their positions around Chattanooga. Bragg, forewarned by one of the country's most reliable journals, refused to be bluffed...
...never went beyond Chickamauga. Instead, he watched 112 out of the 120 men in his company succumb to malaria, typhoid and dysentery in Georgia. That caused him to worry about other things besides the classics. "Why had this government of ours rushed gaily into . . . war . . .? Why was no attention ever given to the problems of sanitation ? Why were we left with obsolete rifles . . .?" To answer some of these questions, Johnson took up economics...
...Bierce fled the family farm and the "unwashed savages," as he later called his parents, worked as a printer's devil for two years. When the Civil War broke out, he was among the first to enlist. Soldier Bierce did well; he served bravely at Shiloh and Chickamauga, marched into Georgia with Sherman, wound up a lieutenant. As a staff officer, he caught off-duty glimpses of such top brass as Sheridan and Grant. Of Grant's tippling, he recalled: "I don't think he took enough to comfort the enemy-not more than I did myself...