Update Sources Now
No followers yet.
Dipity
After a change in command and reinforcement of the Union troops, Gen. Ulysses Grant directs a push out of the city in the Battle of Chattanooga, which includes the Battle of Lookout Mountain and th...
To protect the retreat back to Chattanooga through McFarland Gap, Gen. George Thomas organizes Union soldiers, many with repeating rifles, on Snodgrass Hill and rains lead down on the Confederate r...
A breakdown in Union communication opens a gap in the Blue lines, through which Confederate Gen. James Longstreet drives three divisions that push the Union Army into retreat.
Confederate soldiers attack Union placements protected by breastworks built throughout the night. Battles shaped by the terrain and woodlands were waged through the day, taking massive tolls in wou...
Late Saturday morning, Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry clashes with Union troops in the dense woodlands near Jay’s Mill, then pulled back about 1 p.m. Divisions from North and Sou...
Huge opposing forces were near each other, but are obscured by dense woods that keep commanders from being sure where their own troops were, much less the enemy’s.
Gen. Bragg’s order to attack at Lee & Gordon’s Mills was stymied by slow reaction from commanders and difficulty getting troops quickly across Chickamauga Creek.
Union Gen. Thomas Crittenden reaches Lee & Gordon’s Mills in Chickamauga, where Union Gen. William Rosecrans had ordered his forces to concentrate as he prepared to meet Gen. Bragg’s reinforced tr...
The Battle of Davis Crossroads flares up in McLemore Cove, west of LaFayette. This relatively minor engagement happened when Union Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas’ lead division — commanded by Maj. Gen....
Union troops had pushed west from Murfreesboro and enter Chattanooga after Gen. Braxton Bragg withdrew his Confederate Army of Tennessee and evacuated the city. Gen. Bragg moves his troops 26 miles...
Comments