The National Military Park, Chickamauga -- Chattanooga: An Historical Guide ...Robert Clarke Company, 1895 - 307 pages |
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... attack from the line of the spring . At 6 P. M. , Cleburne's Division formed with its right at the Mill and advanced westward to the night attack on Baird's and Johnson's Divisions . SNODGRASS HOUSE - FRONT VIEW ........ The Union line ...
... attack from the line of the spring . At 6 P. M. , Cleburne's Division formed with its right at the Mill and advanced westward to the night attack on Baird's and Johnson's Divisions . SNODGRASS HOUSE - FRONT VIEW ........ The Union line ...
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... attack by way of Davis ' Cross Roads upon Gen. Thomas ' Corps at Stevens ' Gap . These were repeated at midnight of the 10th from Bragg's Headquarters , then at LaFayette . The movement miscarried . Sept. 12th , Gen. Polk was ordered ...
... attack by way of Davis ' Cross Roads upon Gen. Thomas ' Corps at Stevens ' Gap . These were repeated at midnight of the 10th from Bragg's Headquarters , then at LaFayette . The movement miscarried . Sept. 12th , Gen. Polk was ordered ...
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... attacked his flank without de- laying him . He deployed Whitaker's Brigade upon the high ground west of this road and drove the enemy's cavalry away from the Union hospital at Cloud's Spring . He then sent back for McCook's Brigade , of ...
... attacked his flank without de- laying him . He deployed Whitaker's Brigade upon the high ground west of this road and drove the enemy's cavalry away from the Union hospital at Cloud's Spring . He then sent back for McCook's Brigade , of ...
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... attack to the left of Baird's Division . The front was protected by a breast work of logs . About 10 A. M. , Cleburne's division attacked the fronts of Johnson and Palmer , but after desperate fighting for about an hour it was repulsed ...
... attack to the left of Baird's Division . The front was protected by a breast work of logs . About 10 A. M. , Cleburne's division attacked the fronts of Johnson and Palmer , but after desperate fighting for about an hour it was repulsed ...
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... attack the city from that direction , while he threw the main body of his army over the river in the vicinity of Bridgeport , thirty - five miles below the city , and thence in succession over the Raccoon Mountains and the Lookout Range ...
... attack the city from that direction , while he threw the main body of his army over the river in the vicinity of Bridgeport , thirty - five miles below the city , and thence in succession over the Raccoon Mountains and the Lookout Range ...
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advance Alabama Alexander's Bridge army Artillery assault attack Baird's Division Battery battle field battle of Chickamauga Bragg Bragg's Headquarters Brannan's Breckinridge's Brig Brig.-Gen Brigade Brotherton's Brown's Ferry Capt Cavalry Chattanooga Cheatham's Division Cleburne Cleburne's column command Confederate Crawfish Springs crest Crittenden's crossing Cumberland Derveer's Dyer Field east engaged Fayette Road fighting flank forces Forrest's front Georgia Gordon Granger Gordon's Mill Hindman's Hood's Hooker's House Illinois Indiana infantry James Jay's Mill John Johnson's Division Kelly Field Kentucky Lee and Gordon's Lieut Lieut.-Col Longstreet's Lookout Mountain Maj.-Gen McFarland's Gap miles Missionary Ridge Mississippi moved night o'clock Orchard Knob Park position reached rear Reed's Bridge regiments Reynolds river Roger Q Rosecrans Rossville Rossville Gap Second Brigade September 20th Sherman's side Smith Snodgrass Hill South Carolina Tennessee Third Brigade Thomas troops Tunnel Hill Union army Union line Viniard's Walker's Walthall's Brigade Wauhatchie Widow Glenn's William Wood's woods
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Page 234 - You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
Page 266 - ... destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic?
Page 109 - ... be given as might be desirable. However, the general plan, you understand, is for Sherman, with the force brought with him, strengthened by a division from your command, to effect a crossing of the Tennessee river just below the mouth of...
Page 293 - 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 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,...
Page 153 - Lucien Greathouse 97th Indiana, Col. Robert F. Catterson 99th Indiana, Col. Alexander Fowler 53d Ohio, Col. Wells S. Jones 70th Ohio, Maj. William B. Brown Artillery Capt. Henry Richardson 1st Illinois Light, Battery F, Capt. John T. Cheney 1st Illinois Light, Battery I, Lieut. Josiah H. Burton 1st Missouri Light, Battery D, Lieut. Byron M. Callender SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS SECOND DIVISION Brig.
Page 293 - It also left open to the enemy, at a distance of only ten 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 111 - ... right and centre, and a movable column of one division in readiness to move wherever ordered. This division should show itself as threateningly as possible on the most practicable line for making an attack up the valley. Your effort...
Page 263 - ... trees or underbrush under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, and that they will assist in caring for and protecting all tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works as may from time to time be erected by proper authority. SEC.
Page 262 - An act to authorize the condemnation of land for sites of public buildings, and for other purposes...
Page 293 - 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 at a few precarious points too deep for artillery, and the wellknown...