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If the Confederates emerged as victors in the Chickamauga Advertising campaign, the Union Military of the Cumberland lay down under siege in Chattanooga, with Braxton Bragg's Military of Tennessee on close by high ground at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Hill. A succeed at Chattanooga was essential for the Confederates, both to capitalize on the triumph at Chickamauga and also to keep control of the gateway to the lower South. Should the Federal soldiers wrest control of that linchpin, they would concrete their control of eastern Tennessee and access the Deep South. Within the land 1863 Chattanooga Advertising campaign, the new head of the american Union armies, Ulysses S. Grant, looked for to break the Confederate siege. His success created the chance for the Union to get started on a campaign to capture Atlanta the following spring. Woodworth's launch sets the level for 10 insightful essays offering new analysis of the crucial campaign. From your Struggle of Wauhatchie to the Struggle of Chattanooga, the contributors' well-researched and vividly written assessments of both Union and Confederate actions offer a well balanced discussion of the complex nature of the marketing campaign and its own aftermath. Other essays give attractive examinations of the reactions to the marketing campaign in northern newspaper publishers and by Confederate soldiers from western world 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.
