Mountains Touched with Fire by Wiley Sword

Mountains Touched with Fire by Wiley Sword

An Award-Winning Historian Dramatically Re-Creates a Turning Point of the Civil War

It was one of the most startling events of the civil war, the "hour of destiny" for the Union. Faced with the prospect of catastrophic defeat, the North's greatest generals--Ulysses Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Thomas, and Phil Sheridan--were commanding a battle for the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Suddenly, as an aghast Grant and Thomas watched, the beleaguered federal troops began a headlong, climactic, seemingly suicidal charge up the face of a six-hundred-foot-high mountain ridge overlooking the city, under ferocious fire from the Confederate infantry that held the ridge.

The siege of Chattanooga and its stuffing turnabout form the core of Wiley Sword's lively narrative. Dozens of previously unpublished photographs, maps, and excepts from private journals, and letters enhance this vivid account. Written with novelistic flair and a historian's authority, Mountains Touched with Fire captures every side of this crucial Civil War battle whose aftermath sealed the fate of the South.

Sword, Wiley: - Wiley Sword is the author of eight books including Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863 and Embrace an Angry Wind for which he received the 1992 Fletcher Pratt Award. His book President Washington's Indian War was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, Parkman Prize and Western Heritage Prize. He was educated at the University of Michigan.

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ISBN 13	9780312155933
ISBN 10	031215593X
Title	Mountains Touched with Fire
Author	Wiley Sword
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St. Martin's Griffin
Year published	1997-04-15
Number of pages	448
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