5 Series I Volume XXX-II Serial 51 - Chickamauga Part II
| Page 5 | Chapter XIII. THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN. |
October 10-14, 1863.-Expedition from Gallatin to Carthage, Tenn., with skirmish (10th) near Hartsville.
14-20, 1863.-Expedition from Messinger's Ferry on the Big Black River, La., with skirmish at Red River (14th).
16, 1863.-The Military Division of The Mississippi (consisting of the Departments of the Cumberland, Ohio, and Tennessee) created, and Major General U. S. Grant assigned to the command. Major General George H. Thomas ordered to command the Department of the Cumberland, vice Major General W. S. Rosecrans, relieved.
Skirmish near Island Numbers 10, Tenn.
17, 1863.-Skirmish near Satartia, Miss.
18, 1863.-Major General U. S. Grant, U. S. Army, assumes command of the Military Division of the Mississippi.
19, 1863.-Skirmish at Smith's Bridge, Miss.
AUGUST 16-SEPTEMBER 22, 1863.-The Chickamauga Campaign.
SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS.
August 16-17, 1863.-General advance of the Army of the Cumberland.
17, 1863.-Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek, near Sparta, Tenn.
21, 1863.-Skirmish at Maysville, Ala.
Action at Shellmound, Tenn.
Bombardment of Chattanooga, Tenn.
22-24, 1863.-Expedition from Tracy City, Tenn., to the Tennessee River.
24, 1863.-Skirmish at Gunter's Landing, near Port Deposit, Ala.
26-27, 1863.-Skirmishes at Harrison's Landing, Tenn.
28, 1863.-Skirmish at the Narrows, near Shellmound, Tenn.
28-31, 1863.-Reconnaissance from Stevenson, Ala.,to Trenton, Ga.
29, 1863.-Skirmish at Caperton's Ferry, Ala.
30-31, 1863.-Reconnaissance from Shellmound toward Chattanooga, Tenn.
31, 1863.-Skirmish in Will's Valley. Ala.
1, 1863.-Skirmishes at Will's Creek and at Davis', Tap's, and Neal's Gaps, Ala.
Skirmish at Lebanon, Ala.
Skirmish near Alpine, Ga.
Destruction of salt-works at Rawlingsville, Ala.
6, 1863.-Skirmish at Stevens' Gap, Ga.
6-7, 1863.-Skirmishes at Summerville, Ga.
7, 1863.-Skirmish at Stevenson, Ala.
Reconnaissance toward Chattanooga and skirmish in Lookout Valley, Tenn.
8, 1863. Skirmish at Winston's Gap, Ala.
Skirmish at Alpine, Ga.
9, 1863.-Chattanooga, Tenn, occupied by the Union forces.
Skirmish at Friar's Island, Tenn.
| Page 5 | Chapter XIII. THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments