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This volume focuses on the two important delaying actions conducted by mounted Union soldiers at Reed's and Alexander's bridges on the first day of Chickamauga. Thoroughly researched and well-written, it includes a detailed walking and driving tour complete with the GPS coordinates. Complete with more than 60 photos and 15 maps by master cartographer Mark Anderson Moore, Holding the Line on the River of Death will be a welcome addition to the burgeoning Chickamauga historiography. AUTHOR: Eric J. Wittenberg is an accomplished American Civil War cavalry historian and author. 65 images, 15 maps

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This is an outstanding account of one of the most impressive feats of arms during the Civil War, and worth a read by anyone with an interested in the war or in mounted operations. --The NYMAS Review

"This is an outstanding account of one of the most impressive feats of arms during the Civil War, and worth a read by anyone with an interested in the war or in mounted operations.""-- ""The NYMAS Review"""

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Eric J. Wittenberg is an accomplished American Civil War cavalry historian and author. An attorney in Ohio, Wittenberg has authored more than two dozen articles in popular magazines and a dozen books, including (with co-authors J. David Petruzzi and Michael F. Nugent) One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4 - 14, 1863; The Battle of Brandy Station; and (with J. David Petruzzi) Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg. Eric’s first book, Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions, won the prestigious 1998 Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award. The second edition won the Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award, for Reprint, 2011.

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