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The campaign and major battle take their name from West Chickamauga Creek. In popular histories, it is often said that Chickamauga is a Cherokee word meaning "river of death". [19] Peter Cozzens, author of This Terrible Sound, wrote that this is a "loose translation". [20]
The Chickamauga Cherokee were a Native American group that separated from the greater body of the Cherokee during the American Revolutionary War and up to the early 1800s. [ 1 ] Following several military setbacks and American reprisals, the majority of the Cherokee people chose to make peace with the Americans near the end of 1776.
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 ...
West Chickamauga Creek can be navigated by kayak or canoe from near Gordon and Lee Mill (Chickamauga, GA) northeast, to where it joins with the South Chickamauga Creek, and from there northward to the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Its mean annual flow velocity (estimate) is 0.77 feet (0.23 m) per second. [7]
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 19th Infantry Regiment ("Rock of Chickamauga" [1]) is a United States Army infantry regiment which is assigned to the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, with the assignment of conducting Basic and Advanced Infantry Training.
The Chickamauga also re-established a small military presence in Tuskegee Island Town at this time. [ citation needed ] Additional settlements in the area were quickly developed, following the arrival of more members to join Dragging Canoe's force.
Chickamauga, first diesel powered tug boat built in the United States; Chickamauga Cherokee, a band of the Native American tribe following chief Dragging Canoe "The Rock of Chickamauga", a nickname for Gen. George Henry Thomas, from his service in the Battle of Chickamauga