title: Chickamauga: A Battlefield History in Images
author: Roger Linton
description: "Linton's sharp focus on the battlefield, many illustrations, and succinct text should appeal to academics and Civil War enthusiasts alike."<br /><br />"He has provided an interesting approach to visualizing this particular battlefield as it was in 1863."--"Huntsville Times"<br /><br />"Linton's sharp focus on the battlefield, many illustrations, and succinct text should appeal to academics and Civil War enthusiasts alike."--Kenneth W. Noe, author of "Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle"<br /><br />"This book offers fascinating and seldom-seen views of one of the Civil War's most important battlefields."--Steven Woodworth, author of "Chickamauga: A Battlefield Guide"
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  **WORKS BY AMBROSE BIERCE**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **"Chickamauga"**
  
  
  First
  
  
  published in the _San Francisco Examiner_ , January 20, 1889.  
  
  
    
  
  
  Included in _Tales of Soldiers and Civilians_ (1891).  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **One
  
  
  sunny autumn** afternoon a child strayed away from its rude home
  
  
  in a small field and entered
  
  
  a forest unobserved. It was happy in a new sense of freedom from
  
  
  control, happy in the opportunity of exploration and adventure; for
  
  
  this child's spirit, in bodies of its ancestors, had for thousands
  
  
  of years been trained to memorable feats of discovery and conquest—victories
  
  
  in battles whose critical moments were centuries, whose victors'
  
  
  camps were cities of hewn stone. From the cradle of its race it had
  
  
  conquered its way through two continents and passing a great sea
  
  