The Battles for Chattanooga, 1863-1865
... The battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga marked an important turning point for the Civil War in the Western Theater. At the end of the summer of 1863, the Confederacy desperately needed a victory. The Army of the Potomac had defeated the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg on July 3 and the fo ...
... The battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga marked an important turning point for the Civil War in the Western Theater. At the end of the summer of 1863, the Confederacy desperately needed a victory. The Army of the Potomac had defeated the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg on July 3 and the fo ...
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... could have been deemed a mass emigration with some 150,000 to 200,000 Irish, mainly young Catholic men, having arrived. Most, being rootless and single, would swiftly be absorbed into the American way of life with no separate ethnic group being established during this early period. The first big wav ...
Blackburn`s Ford
... him. Wish I coulda brought mine. I’m starting to get real homesick.” Robert started packing his bedroll. Col Richardson had Capt H.J. Hunt with the Second US Artillery move cautiously forward with two of his rifled twenty-pound field guns. The Union troops moved slowly because of an incident earlier ...
... him. Wish I coulda brought mine. I’m starting to get real homesick.” Robert started packing his bedroll. Col Richardson had Capt H.J. Hunt with the Second US Artillery move cautiously forward with two of his rifled twenty-pound field guns. The Union troops moved slowly because of an incident earlier ...
The Battle of Lookout Mountain - Essential Civil War Curriculum
... Mountain. Chattanooga was a small but strategically important city which was needed for control of Central Tennessee. Federal forces at Chattanooga were commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate forces by General Braxton Bragg. At Lookout Mountain Federal forces were commanded by M ...
... Mountain. Chattanooga was a small but strategically important city which was needed for control of Central Tennessee. Federal forces at Chattanooga were commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate forces by General Braxton Bragg. At Lookout Mountain Federal forces were commanded by M ...
The Battle of Chickamauga and its Aftermath
... when a great battle took place along an obscure creek in North Georgia called Chickamauga. From September 19-20, 1863, Confederates under General Braxton Bragg fought General William Rosecrans’ Union army in one of the most brutal battles of the Civil War (Casualties: U.S. - 16,170; CS - 18,454). In ...
... when a great battle took place along an obscure creek in North Georgia called Chickamauga. From September 19-20, 1863, Confederates under General Braxton Bragg fought General William Rosecrans’ Union army in one of the most brutal battles of the Civil War (Casualties: U.S. - 16,170; CS - 18,454). In ...
Battle of Missionary Ridge
The Battle of Missionary Ridge was fought November 25, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the Union victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain on November 24, Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg.In the morning, elements of the Army of the Tennessee commanded by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman attempted to capture the northern end of Missionary Ridge, Tunnel Hill, but were stopped by fierce resistance from the Confederate divisions of Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, William H.T. Walker, and Carter L. Stevenson. In the afternoon, Grant was concerned that Bragg was reinforcing his right flank at Sherman's expense. He ordered the Army of the Cumberland, commanded by Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, to move forward and seize the Confederate line of rifle pits on the valley floor, and stop there to await further orders. The Union soldiers moved forward and quickly pushed the Confederates from the first line of rifle pits but were then subjected to a punishing fire from the Confederate lines up the ridge.At this point, the Union soldiers continued the attack against the remaining lines, seeking refuge near the crest of the ridge (the top line of rifle pits were sited on the actual crest rather than the military crest of the ridge, leaving blind spots). This second advance was taken up by the commanders on the spot, but also by some of the soldiers who, on their own, sought shelter from the fire further up the slope. The Union advance was disorganized but effective; finally overwhelming and scattering what ought to have been, as General Grant himself believed, an impregnable Confederate line. In combination with an advance from the southern end of the ridge by divisions under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, the Union Army routed Bragg's army, which retreated to Dalton, Georgia, ending the siege of Union forces in Chattanooga, Tennessee.