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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]
Duty at Lavergne until June 1863. Expedition toward Columbia March 4–14. Tullahoma Campaign June 24-July 7. Hoover's Gap June 24–26. Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of Chickamauga, September 19–21.
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 Cherokees are Coming!, an illustration depicting a scout warning the residents of Knoxville, Tennessee, of the approach of a large Cherokee force in September 1793 The Cherokee–American wars, also known as the Chickamauga Wars, were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier battles in the Old Southwest [1] from 1776 to 1794 between the ...
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 ...
The 98th Illinois Infantry was organized at Centralia, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 3, 1862. [2]The regiment was converted to mounted infantry on March 8, 1863 [3] and became an element of "Wilder's Lightning Brigade", [note 1] a unit that pioneered the use of mounted infantry. [4]
The secret romance between a World War II soldier and his male sweetheart emerged more than 70 years later after Mark Hignett, from Oswestry, Shropshire, began purchasing the letters from eBay.
Bridges' Battery lost six killed, 20 wounded, and four missing out of 126 officers and men at Chickamauga. The battery also lost 46 horses, one Napoleon, one Ordnance rifle, three limbers, and one caisson. Bridges' Battery dragged four abandoned guns from other batteries off the field.