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The Chickamauga Campaign: Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-328-7. Robertson, William Glenn. River of Death: the Chickamauga Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press ...
The 96th Illinois Infantry was organized at Rockford, Illinois, and mustered into Federal service on September 6, 1862.It consisted of men from Jo Daviess County and Lake County, Illinois.
The Chickamauga campaign of the American Civil War was a series of battles fought in northwestern Georgia from August 21 to September 20, 1863, between the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee. The campaign started successfully for Union commander William S. Rosecrans, with the Union army occupying the vital city of ...
Henry Martyn Cist (February 20, 1839 – December 16, 1902) was an American soldier, lawyer, and author who was a Union Army captain and staff officer during the American Civil War. On December 11, 1866 he was nominated and on February 6, 1867 he was confirmed for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from ...
Hans Christian Heg (December 21, 1829 – September 20, 1863) was a Norwegian American abolitionist, journalist, anti-slavery activist, politician and soldier, best known for leading the Scandinavian 15th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment on the Union side in the American Civil War. He died of the wounds he received at the Battle of Chickamauga. [1]
Although a victory for Bragg, the Battle of Chickamauga had been costlier for the Confederates than the Union, and Union control of the route to Chattanooga was saved by the conduct of George Thomas' command and the 2nd Minnesota. Out of 384 men present for duty at Chickamauga, 35 were killed, 113 were wounded, 14 were made prisoner. [1]
Attacks at Chickamauga on September 20, 1863. During the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia in the fall of 1863, Steedman led the vanguard of Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger's Reserve Corps to Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas' aid on September 20. From his position north of the battlefield at MacAfee's Church, Granger heard the sounds of the fight to ...
The townships of Thomas County are named after fallen soldiers in the Battle of Chickamauga. [49] Thomas County, Nebraska, is also named after him. [50] In 1999 a statue of Thomas by sculptor Rudy Ayoroa was unveiled in Lebanon, Kentucky. [51] A bust of Thomas is located in Grant's Tomb in Manhattan, New York.