![Determined to win back eastern Tennessee from the advancing Federals, Confederates hurled themselves at the Northerners in the forested and broken fields near Chickamauga Creek in northwestern Georgia.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/M-Chicamauga-1-4C-Jun03-760x548.jpg)
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On They Came Like an Angry Flood: The Battle of Chickamauga
By Arnold BlumbergIt had been a little over six months since Major General William S. Rosecrans and his Army of the Cumberland had checked the Confederates at the Battle of Stones River (December 31,1862–January 2,1863). Read more