The Shipwreck of Their Hopes

The Shipwreck of Their Hopes

By
Peter Cozzens
Peter Cozzens
1994 • 550 pages

Civil War enthusiasts will welcome a new book by Peter Cozzens, author of two highly praised works on Civil War campaigns--No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. In The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, Cozzens fully chronicles one of the South's most humiliating defeats. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Civil War Trilogy is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1927 with contributions by Evelyn Scott and Peter Cozzens.

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