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For more than 8 weeks, Union General William Rosecrans and his Military of the Cumberland pursued General Braxton Bragg's Confederate Military of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Chattanooga. Finally, on September 18, 1863, on the banking companies of a little river in Northwest Georgia, the two great armies emerged face to face, and so started three days and nights of hell, including the two bloodiest days and nights of our nation's Civil Warfare.Three Days in Hell is a book, a work of fiction, predicated on actual historical occasions. The characters, with one exemption, were all real people. The words they speak throughout the storyplot will be the author's; the deeds they performed, their success and failures, are their own. Pulling on many years of careful research, Blair Howard dramatizes one man's contribution to the stunning Confederate win at Chickamauga. Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson was the main element player for the army in gray.This is the story of Confederate General Johnson's three days and nights at Chickamauga, and his grand and glorious charge greater than a mile that smashed through the opponent lines and led to a resounding win for the Confederate cause and an ignominious beat for General Rosecrans. Even Johnson's opponents praised what he performed that day. Some likened it to Pickett's Demand at Gettysburg, but where Pickett failed, Johnson been successful.Three Days in Hell, action-packed from begin to finish, is the storyplot of Confederate General Bushrod Johnson's Chickamauga as told through the eyes and words of one of his personnel officers, Major Chester Rigby. The author goes onto the battlefield as no one did before. He plunges you directly into the center of the action, which doesn't let until the end. It's a tale of heroism, anxious deeds, and loss of life and destruction over a scale famous brands which got never been seen before.
