Conflicting Memories on the “River of Death”: The Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, 1863–1933

Contents

List of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction: “The Battlefields Are the Memories” 1 1 “The Consequences Will Be Momentous” 11 2 “The Fate of the Army Depended on This Charge” 25 3 “The Grandest [Cause] That Ever Rose, the Purest That Ever Fell” 50 4 “Stamp Out Venerable Falsehoods” 64 5 “Offering Your Lives . . . in Vindication of Your Manhood” 85 6 “No Place for Lovers to Bide Tryst” 107 7 “A Maker of Glorious History” 128 8 “To Cement Forever the Bonds of Sectional Reunion” 137 9 “It Is Terrible That Man Is Such a Brute” 153 10 “What They Will Do with Us Now Is a Mystery” 177 11 “Ground Unfit for Men to Live On” 188 12 “One Huge Pest House” 214 13 “A Lunacy Worthy of France” 232 14 “Where American Valor Met American Valor” 249 15 “Through the Most Trying Ordeals” 271 Epilogue: “Close of the Battle—7:30 p.m.” 283 Appendix A 287 Appendix B 295 Appendix C 300 Notes 307 Bibliography 369 Index 397 Contents ...