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CHICKAMAUGA See also:CREEK , a small tributary of the See also:Tennessee See also:river, which it joins near See also:Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.A. It gives its name to the See also:great See also:battle of Chickamauga in the See also:American See also:Civil See also:War, fought on the 19-20th of See also:September 1863, between the Federal See also:army of the See also:Cumberland under See also:Major-See also:General W. S. See also:Rosecrans and the Confederate army under General Braxton See also:Bragg. For the general operations of Rosecrans' army in 1863 see AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. A successful war ofmanceuvre had brought the army of the Cumberland from See also:Murfreesboro to Decherd, Tenn., and Bragg's army See also:lay on the Tennessee at and above Chattanooga. Rosecrans was expected by the enemy to manoeuvre so as to gain See also:touch with the See also:Union forces in the upper Tennessee valley, but he formed an entirely different See also:plan of operations. One See also:part of the army demonstrated in front of Chattanooga, and the See also:main See also:body secretly crossed the river about See also:Stevenson and See also:Bridgeport (September 4th). The See also:country was mountainous, the roads few and poor, and the Federals had to take full supplies of See also:food, See also:forage and See also:ammunition with them, but Rosecrans was an able See also:commander, his troops were in See also:good hands, and he accepted the risks involved. These were intensified by the want of good maps, and, in the event, at one moment the army was placed in a position of great danger. A See also:corps under A. McD. See also:McCook moved See also:south-eastward across the ridges to Alpine, another under See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas marched via Trenton on McLemore's
See also:Emery Walksr w
See also:Cove. The presence of Federal masses in Lookout Valley caused Bragg to abandon Chattanooga at once, and the See also:object of the manoeuvre was thus accomplished; but owing to the want of good maps the Union army was at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time exposed to great danger. The See also:head of Thomas's See also:column was engaged at Dug See also:Gap, on the 11th, against the flank guard of Bragg's army, and at the time McCook was far away to the south, and See also:Crittenden's corps, which had occupied Chattanooga on the 9th, was also at a distance. Thomas was isolated, but Rosecrans, like every other commander under whom he served, placed unbounded confidence in his tenacity, and if Bragg was wrong in neglecting to attack him on the r4th, subsequent events went far to disarm See also:criticism. By the 18th of September Rosecrans had at last collected his army on Chickamauga Creek covering Chattanooga. But Bragg had now received heavy reinforcements, and lay, concentrated for battle, on the other See also:side of the Creek.
The terrain of the battle of Chickamauga (19th-2oth of September) had little See also:influence on its course. Both armies lay in the See also:plain, the two lines roughly parallel. Bragg's intention was to force his attack See also:home on Rosecrans' See also:left wing, thus cutting him off from Chattanooga and throwing him back into the See also:mountain country whence he had come. On the 19th a serious See also:action took See also:place between the Confederate right and Rosecrans' left under Thomas. On the loth the real battle began. The Confederates, in accordance with Bragg's plans, pressed hard upon Thomas, to whom Rosecrans sent reinforcements. One of the divisions detached from the centre for this purpose was by inadvertence taken out of the first See also:line, and before the gap
could be filled the Confederate central attack; led by See also:Longstreet and See also:Hood, the fighting generals of See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee's army, and carried out by See also:veteran troops from the Virginian battlefields, cut the Federal army in two. McCook's army corps, isolated on the Federal right, was speedily routed, and the centre shared its See also:fate. Rosecrans himself was swept off the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field in the rout of See also:half of his army. But Thomas was unshaken. He re-formed the left wing in a semicircle, and aided by a few fresh brigades from Rossville, resisted for six See also:hours the efforts of the whole Confederate army. Rosecrans in the meantime was rallying the fugitives far to the See also:rear near Chattanooga itself. The fury of Bragg's See also:assault spent itself uselessly on the heroic divisions under Thomas, who remained on the field till See also:night and then withdrew in good See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to Rossville. Here he remained on the 21st, imposing respect upon the victors. On the 22nd Rosecrans had re-established order, and Thomas See also:fell back quietly to Chattanooga, whither Bragg slowly pursued. For the subsequent events of the See also:campaign see CHATTANOOGA. The losses in the battle See also:bear See also:witness to a severity in the fighting unusual even in the American Civil War. Of 70,000 Confederates engaged at least 18,000 were killed and wounded, and the Federals lost 16,000 out of about 57,000. The battlefield has been converted into a See also:national See also:park, and was used during the See also:Spanish American War (1898) as a place of mobilization for the U.S. See also:volunteers.
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