Harper’s Weeklyartist Alfred
Waud’s battlefield sketch
shows Confederate infantry
advancing ominously through
the trees toward Union
forces during the Battle of
Chickamauga. INSET: General
William H. Lytle.Library of CongressPOET-GENERAL WILLIAM H. LYTLE
A rising star in the Union Army, Brig. Gen. William
Haines Lytle was popular with both his superiors
and enlisted men. Many felt he was destined for
the White House. One morning at Chickamauga
would change all that. | BY ROY MORRIS JR.
Dying, Egypt, Dying”
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