On Sunday night (2/27) I searched the Furman library catalog for books on the Battle of Chickamauga and found one of note, "Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy" by James Lee McDonough.
This book is important for my project because McDonough discusses Rosecrans at the Battle of Chickamauga. He calls Rosecrans' order to General Wood on September 20 at 10 a.m. to close up the non-existent gap in General Reynolds' line "the determining factor in one of the most desparately fought battles of the war." In response, CSA General Longstreet marched his division through the hole in the Union line created by Wood and decimated the Union forces.
After reviewing the book's discussion of Rosecrans at Chickamauga, I have decided to focus my episode on that fateful order and how it affected the battle and Rosecrans' later career.
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