Peter Cozzens meticulously traces the chain of events as the Army of the Cumberland and the Army of Tennessee meet in Middle Tennessee on New Year's Eve 1862 in one of the bloodiest encounters of the Civil War.

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.

The battle around Chattanooga in the late fall of 1863 were among the most decisive of the Civil War. This comprehensive account details movements of individual regiments and reveals the larger impact of the campaign on the outcome of the war.

General John Pope: A Life for the Nation is the first full biography of one of the most outspoken and controversial figures to hold high command during the Civil War, Reconstruction, and in the American West. Renowned Civil War scholar Peter Cozzens has mined Pope's own memoirs and a wealth of other primary sources to uncover new information about his pre- and postwar career. The result is a monumental work that presents the complete picture of a complex man and gifted strategist. Peter Cozzens is a foreign service officer with the U. S. Department of State and author of the trilogy No Better...