I just completed reading:
The Maps of Chickamauga, An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 – September 23, 1863.
By David A. Powell with cartography by David A. Friedrichs
Savas Beatie, New York and California, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-932714-72-2
Although there were a few confusions between a unit's right flank and left flank from not orienting the map in the author's mind and some missing house, road, and field labels on the maps, the book was very interesting and well-done.
The book takes one through the entire Tullahoma and Chickamauga campaigns and the confusing battle of Chickamauga using a page of text and a map on the opposite page, similar to the West Point Atlases. This especially made the two-day battle more comprehensible as divisions, brigades, and even regiments were moving almost every which away.
I can highly recommend this book to the Civil War student and to the enthusiast.
This similar tack has been taken with First Bull Run and Gettysburg. I can only hope the series is continued with other big battles in both the east and the west.
Jim
