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The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18–20, 1863, between the United States Army and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a U.S. Army offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.
The Maps of Chickamauga: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22-September 23, 1863. Savas Beatie, 2009. ISBN 978-1932714722. White, Lee. Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18–20, 1863 (Emerging Civil War series), Savas Beatie, 2013. ISBN 978-1611211580. Tucker, Glenn.
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 ...
After Chickamauga, Pound's Battalion was sent back to Mississippi and some of the 43rd rode with General Forrest to drive Union forces out of the state. In the spring of 1864, the 43rd regiment was sent to Georgia to fight in the Atlanta Campaign against William T. Sherman 's invading Federal army.
Union Chickamauga Order of Battle at Civil War Virtual Tours; Richardson, Maj. Robert D. (1989). ROSECRANS' STAFF AT CHICKAMAUGA: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM S. ROSECRANS' STAFF ON THE OUTCOME OF THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN (PDF). Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 19, 2016. {}: CS1 maint: location ...
The newly created Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was used during the Spanish–American War as a major training center for troops in the southern states. The park was temporarily renamed "Camp George H. Thomas" in honor of the union army commander during the Civil War battle at the site. The park's proximity to the major ...
Because of Chickamauga Cherokee activity, frontiersmen, colonies and states launched punitive raids against the Cherokee (usually the Overhill Towns). However, large forces invaded the Chickamauga area in 1777 and destroyed all eleven towns.
Wheeler's October 1863 Raid (October 1–9, 1863) was a large cavalry raid in southeastern Tennessee during the American Civil War. Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler's Confederate cavalry scored a great initial success, but subsequently was roughed up by Union cavalry during its withdrawal south of the Tennessee River.