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Chickamauga: Noted Battles for the Union During the Civil War John B Turchin No preview available - 2014 |
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3d brigade advance Alabama Alexander's bridge ammunition army corps artillery assault attack B. R. Johnson Baird Battalion Battery battle of Chickamauga Bragg Brig.-Gen Brigade.-Brig.-Gen Brigade.-Col Buckner campaign Capt captured cavalry Chattanooga Cheatham Chicago Cleburne column Commanding commenced Crittenden crossing Cumberland Davis east Eighty-ninth Ohio enemy enemy's extreme left field fight fire flank force formed front Georgia Glenn's house Gregg's Halleck Hazen Hill Hindman Hood's division Horseshoe Ridge Illinois Indiana infantry John Johnson's division joined Kelley's Kentucky Kershaw Lafayette Lafayette-and-Chattanooga road Lee-and-Gordon's mill left wing Liddell's Lieut Lieut.-Col Longstreet Lookout Maj.-Gen McCook's miles Missionary Ridge Mountain moved movement Negley officers Palmer position rear rebel Gen Reed's bridge reënforcements regiments reserve corps Reynolds Ringgold Rosecrans Rossville second brigade sent Sept September September 19 September 20 skirmishers soldiers Steedman Tennessee River Thomas Total 2d troops Turchin VanCleve VanCleve's Walker's Wilder's Wood Wood's wounded
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Page 129 - It also left open to the enemy, at a distance of only 10 miles, our battle-field, with thousands of our wounded and his own, and all the trophies and supplies we had won. All this was to be risked and given up for what ? To gain the enemy's rear and cut him off from his depot of supplies by the route over the .mountains, when the very movement abandoned to his unmolested use the better, and more practicable route, of half the length, on the south side of the river. It is hardly necessary to say the...
Page 169 - Brannan's right, moved forward his artillery and drove the enemy down the southern slope, inflicting on him a most terrible loss in killed and wounded. This opportune arrival of fresh troops revived the flagging spirits of our men on the right and inspired them with new ardor for the contest. Every assault of the enemy from that time until nightfall was repulsed in the most gallant style by the whole line. By this time the ammunition in the boxes of the men was reduced on an average to two or three...
Page 129 - Such a movement was utterly impossible for want of transportation. Nearly half our army consisted of reinforcements just before the battle, without a wagon or an artillery horse, and nearly, if not quite, a third of the artillery horses on the field had been lost. The railroad bridges, too, had been destroyed to a point south of Ringgold, and on all the road from Cleveland to Knoxville. To these insurmountable difficulties were added the entire absence of means to cross the river, except by fording...
Page 6 - Stevens's and Cooper's gaps. Thrown off his guard by our rapid movement, apparently in retreat, when, in reality we had concentrated opposite his center, and deceived by the information from deserters and others sent into his lines, the enemy pressed on his columns to intercept us, and thus exposed himself in detail.
Page 129 - The suggestion of a movement by our right immediately after the battle to the north of the Tennessee and thence upon Nashville requires notice only because it will find a place on the files of the department. Such a movement was utterly impossible for want of transportation. Nearly half our army consisted of re-enforcements just before the battle without a wagon or an artillery horse, and nearly, if not quite, a third of the artillery horses on the field had been lost.
Page 5 - ... toward our left and rear in the direction of Dalton and Rome, keeping Lookout Mountain between us. The nature of the country and the want of supplies in it, with the presence of Burnside's force on our right, rendered a movement on the enemy's rear with our inferior force extremely hazardous, if not impracticable.
Page 28 - Athens to connect with you. After holding the mountain passes on the west, and Dalton, or some other point on the railroad, to prevent the return of Bragg's army, it will be decided whether your army shall move further south into Georgia and Alabama.
Page 170 - ... movement, and I left the position behind General Wood's command to meet Reynolds and point out to him the position where I wished him to form line to cover the retirement of the other troops on the left. In passing through an open woods bordering...