Battle of Chickamauga
09/20/1863 AD defeated
The first major battle of the war fought in Georgia, the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater, and involved the second-highest number of casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Fighting began in earnest on the morning of September 19. Bragg's men strongly assaulted but could not break the Union line. The next day, Bragg resumed his assault. In late morning, Rosecrans was misinformed that he had a gap in his line. In moving units to shore up the supposed gap, Rosecrans accidentally created an actual gap, directly in the path of an eight-brigade assault on a narrow front by Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, whose corps had been detached from the Army of Northern Virginia. In the resulting rout, Longstreet's attack drove one-third of the Union army, including Rosecrans himself, from the field.
Lattitude: 34.7299° N
Longitude: 85.3° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
Subjects Who or What defeated?
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Confederate States The Confederacy was orig... -
Braxton Bragg American army officer du...
Objects To Whom or What was defeated?
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William Rosecrans (Old Rosy) American inventor, coal-...
Events in 1863 MORE
