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General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind "Juneteenth"
General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind "Juneteenth"
General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind "Juneteenth"
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The first full-length biography of the Union general who performed heroically at the Civil War battles of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Mobile.
 
By coming to the aid of Maj. Gen. Thomas—against orders—at the Battle of Chickamauga, Union Gen. Gordon Granger saved the Federal army from catastrophic defeat. Later, he played major roles in the Chattanooga and Mobile campaigns. Immediately after the war, as commander of US troops in Texas, his actions sparked the “Juneteenth” celebrations of slavery’s end, which continue to this day.
 
After his first battle at Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, Granger rose through the ranks to contend with the Confederates Earl Van Dorn and Nathan Bedford Forrest for control of central Tennessee. The artillery platform he erected at Franklin, dubbed Fort Granger, would soon sound the death knell of the main Confederate army in the west.
 
Granger eventually took command of a full infantry corps, but proved too odd of a fellow to promote further. This long-overdue biography sheds fascinating new light on a colorful commander who fought through the war in the West from its first major battles to its last, and even left his impact on the Reconstruction.
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Release dateNov 15, 2013
ISBN9781612001869
General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind "Juneteenth"
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Robert C. Conner

Robert C. Conner is the author of General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind “Juneteenth”, published by Casemate in 2013. He also wrote the 2018 historical novel, The Last Circle of Ulysses Grant, published by Square Circle Press. A former journalist and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of New York University, Conner won two first-place writing awards from the New York Associated Press Association for newspapers with circulation between 50,000 and 200,000.

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