Never had a man more thoroughly earned the title of honor that he bore throughout the rest of his life, "The Rock of Chickamauga." Chickamauga, though, was a sinister word to the North.

Gettysburg and Vicksburg had stemmed the high tide of the Confederacy, and many had thought the end in sight.

But the news from "The River of Death" told them that the road to crowning success was still long and terrible..