{"product_id":"mountains-touched-with-fire-wiley-sword-9780312155933","title":"Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Award-Winning Historian Dramatically Re-Creates a Turning Point of the Civil War\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was one of the most startling events of the civil war, the hour of destiny for the Union. Faced with the prospect of catastrophic defeat, the North's greatest generals--Ulysses Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Thomas, and Phil Sheridan--were commanding a battle for the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Suddenly, as an aghast Grant and Thomas watched, the beleaguered federal troops began a headlong, climactic, seemingly suicidal charge up the face of a six-hundred-foot-high mountain ridge overlooking the city, under ferocious fire from the Confederate infantry that held the ridge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe siege of Chattanooga and its stuffing turnabout form the core of Wiley Sword's lively narrative. Dozens of previously unpublished photographs, maps, and excepts from private journals, and letters enhance this vivid account. Written with novelistic flair and a historian's authority, \u003ci\u003eMountains Touched with Fire \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures every side of this crucial Civil War battle whose aftermath sealed the fate of the South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley Sword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 031215593X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312155933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Wiley Sword","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946428334335,"sku":"9780312155933","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_12a47a5b-ec8a-4aec-8458-3633cd68d272.jpg?v=1681513090","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mountains-touched-with-fire-wiley-sword-9780312155933","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}