Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863
After Gettysburg, it was the Civil War’s largest battle, but until recently, little of consequence had been written about Chickamauga. You can count on one hand the number of authors who have tackled Chickamauga in any real depth, and most of their works cover the entire battle. Left unmined and mostly forgotten are the experiences of specific brigades, regiments, and state-affiliated troops. Scott Mingus and Joseph Owen’s Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18–20, 1863, is the first full-length book to examine in detail the role of troops from the Lone Star State.

Texas troops fought in almost every major sector of the sprawling Chickamauga battlefield, from the first attacks on September 18 on the bridges spanning the creek to the final attack on Snodgrass Hill on September 20. Fortunately, many of the survivors left vivid descriptions of battle action, the anguish of losing friends, the pain and loneliness of being so far away from home, and their often-colorful opinions of their generals.

The authors of this richly detailed study based their work on hundreds of personal accounts, memoirs, postwar newspaper articles, diaries, and other primary sources. Their meticulous work provides the first exploration of the critical role Texas enlisted men and officers played in the three days of fighting near West Chickamauga Creek in September 1863.

Unceasing Fury provides the Lone Star State soldiers with the recognition they have so long deserved.
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Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863
After Gettysburg, it was the Civil War’s largest battle, but until recently, little of consequence had been written about Chickamauga. You can count on one hand the number of authors who have tackled Chickamauga in any real depth, and most of their works cover the entire battle. Left unmined and mostly forgotten are the experiences of specific brigades, regiments, and state-affiliated troops. Scott Mingus and Joseph Owen’s Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18–20, 1863, is the first full-length book to examine in detail the role of troops from the Lone Star State.

Texas troops fought in almost every major sector of the sprawling Chickamauga battlefield, from the first attacks on September 18 on the bridges spanning the creek to the final attack on Snodgrass Hill on September 20. Fortunately, many of the survivors left vivid descriptions of battle action, the anguish of losing friends, the pain and loneliness of being so far away from home, and their often-colorful opinions of their generals.

The authors of this richly detailed study based their work on hundreds of personal accounts, memoirs, postwar newspaper articles, diaries, and other primary sources. Their meticulous work provides the first exploration of the critical role Texas enlisted men and officers played in the three days of fighting near West Chickamauga Creek in September 1863.

Unceasing Fury provides the Lone Star State soldiers with the recognition they have so long deserved.
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Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863

Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863

by Scott L. Mingus Sr., Joseph L. Owen
Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863

Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863

by Scott L. Mingus Sr., Joseph L. Owen

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Overview

After Gettysburg, it was the Civil War’s largest battle, but until recently, little of consequence had been written about Chickamauga. You can count on one hand the number of authors who have tackled Chickamauga in any real depth, and most of their works cover the entire battle. Left unmined and mostly forgotten are the experiences of specific brigades, regiments, and state-affiliated troops. Scott Mingus and Joseph Owen’s Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18–20, 1863, is the first full-length book to examine in detail the role of troops from the Lone Star State.

Texas troops fought in almost every major sector of the sprawling Chickamauga battlefield, from the first attacks on September 18 on the bridges spanning the creek to the final attack on Snodgrass Hill on September 20. Fortunately, many of the survivors left vivid descriptions of battle action, the anguish of losing friends, the pain and loneliness of being so far away from home, and their often-colorful opinions of their generals.

The authors of this richly detailed study based their work on hundreds of personal accounts, memoirs, postwar newspaper articles, diaries, and other primary sources. Their meticulous work provides the first exploration of the critical role Texas enlisted men and officers played in the three days of fighting near West Chickamauga Creek in September 1863.

Unceasing Fury provides the Lone Star State soldiers with the recognition they have so long deserved.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611215557
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Publication date: 05/30/2022
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 883,646
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Scott L. Mingus Sr., a scientist in the paper industry, is the award-winning author of more than a dozen Civil War books, including his forthcoming (with Joe Owens) Unceasing Fury: Texans at the Battle of Chickamauga, September 18–20, 1863 (2022) and his two-volume study (with Eric J. Wittenberg) “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania:” The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg, June 3–22, 1863 (2022). Scott maintains a blog on the Civil War history of York County (www.yorkblog.com/cannonball) and resides in York, Pennsylvania.

Joe Owen is a National Park Ranger at Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park in Johnson City, Texas. He served 15 years in the U.S. Navy, attended college at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, and received a Bachelor’s Degree in History and a Masters Degree in Secondary Education. Joe taught Social Studies for eight years in Oklahoma, Texas and Oregon before working for the NPS. He is a co-author of two books about Hood’s Texas Brigade, Texans At Gettysburg: Blood and Glory with Hood’s Texas Brigade, (2016), and Texans at Antietam: A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16-17, 1862, (2017), and is the author of Lone Star Valor: Texans of the Blue and Gray at Gettysburg (2019). Joe received the 2019 Jefferson Davis Gold Medal from the Daughters of Confederacy for outstanding research and writing. He lives with his wife Cathy in Blanco, Texas.

Table of Contents

Foreword David A. Powell xi

Chapter 1 The Texans 1

Chapter 2 The Long Road to Chickamauga 21

Chapter 3 September 18-The Battle for the Bridges 48

Chapter 4 September 19, Morning-Ector's Brigade 70

Chapter 5 September 19, Early Afternoon-Gregg's Brigade 86

Chapter 6 September 19, Late Afternoon-Hood's Texas Brigade 99

Chapter 7 September 19, Evening-Deshler's Brigade 133

Chapter 8 September 20, Morning-Ector's and Deshler's Brigades 150

Chapter 9 September 20, Midday-Hood's Texans and Gregg's Brigade 174

Chapter 10 September 20, Late Afternoon and Evening 197

Chapter 11 Return to Chattanooga 211

Chapter 12 The Gateway to the South Opens 240

Chapter 13 Legacy 253

Appendix A Overall Casualties at Chickamauga in Texas Commands 259

Appendix B Individual Texas Casualties at Chickamauga by Regiment 261

Bibliography 287

Acknowledgments 301

Index 305

About the Authors 320

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