david g moore. he has written the first

david g moore. biogr written the first general -- >> thank you to the museum of the confederacy. and thank you to c-span. i want to start by reading from an introductory chapter of my book. just to kind of set things up. a group of veterans gathered in chattanooga, tennessee, in one of the key moments of the american civil war, they were in chattanooga for their 33rd annual meeting of the society of the army of the cumberland. that army had fought in march across middle tennessee in 1863, climbing mountains and reversing rivers before fighting confederate armies at chickamauga creek, in the greatest battle in the western theater of the war. in the minds of these veterans, chickamauga was not a union defeat, but rather the battle for the capture and permanent possession of the city where they were meeting, chattanooga. that capture of chattanooga eventually led to the capture of atlanta and the union victory in the war. at the third session of the meeting, an unexpected topic came up. a statue for the man who led the army of the cumberland during its most important battles in the