Ray Chandler

The Redemption of Alfred Iverson Ray Chandler

In late July 1864, Brigadier General Alfred Iverson won a battle that was for the Confederate forces one of the few highpoints of the Atlanta campaign. He thwarted one of the Union Army's largest cavalry operations of the war, bagging hundreds of prisoners that included a Union major general. But in the eyes of history, Iverson's victory in this battle is overshadowed by the near annihilation of his brigade on July 1, 1863, at the battle of Gettysburg, a debacle for which survivors held him at fault. But was he fully to blame? And did he indeed redeem himself on an obscure battlefield in south Georgia? This new book by author Ray Chandler deals with Iverson's redemption and other stories of Georgians in the Civil War. Trace the travels and thoughts of Thomas Ware, a young soldier from Lincoln County, as he marches to Gettysburg and his death. Look at the actions of a brigade of Georgians who attacked and penetrated the Union center at Gettysburg a day before Pickett's Charge attempted the same stroke. Was Georgia's firebrand Robert Toombs justified in his animosity that he never received due credit for probably saving the Army of Northern Virginia at the battle of Antietam? How and why did $450,000 in gold and silver from the banks of Richmond end up in Washington, Georgia, in the last days of the war? And what happened to most of it. What influence did James Dunwoody Bulloch, the Confederate Navy's man in Great Britain tasked with putting Confederate commerce raiders on the high seas have on his nephew, future President Theodore Roosevelt?