On Rising Ground: The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, 52nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Elaine Fowler Palencia - DLM) Study of Civil War That delay cost Bragg’s army

That delay cost Bragg’s army the initiative at Chickamauga

Cunningham paints as complete a picture as possible of the daunting task facing those charged with caring for the war’s wounded and sick

as well as the harrowing existence of troopers in the field

the punishments

With these diametrically opposed belief systems

On Rising Ground: The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, 52nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Elaine Fowler Palencia - DLM) Study of Civil War That delay cost Bragg’s armyby Elaine Fowler Palencia When John M. Douthit of Appalachian Georgia enlisted as a private in Fannin County's 52nd Volunteer Infantry Regiment on March 4, 1862 and marched with neighbors to train at Camp McDonald, he left behind a pregnant wife, an eighteen month old daughter, and a small farm. A precious cache of family letters traces him to eastern Tennessee, where he served south of Cumberland Gap; through the failed Confederate invasion of