The Battle of Chickamauga

Union vs. Confederate What Was The Battle Of Chickamauga

• The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18 – 20, 1863, between U.S. and Confederate forces in the , marked the end of a Union offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern and northwestern Georgia. With the Confederate forces rather leaving their country than give up on the enslavement of African Americans. The Union and Their Movement Towards The Battle of Chickamauga • William Rosecrans, a union General in charge of the of the Cumberland, Tennessee, a valuable railroad crossing and trading post • Rosecrans sent George Thomas and Alexander McCook on a Right Flanking Movement 35 miles south of Chattanooga Confederate Movement to Chickamauga and Attack

• As Rosecrans' Army passed through LaFayette, Georgia , Confederate General learned of the widely scattered condition of the Union army and planned an offensive movement against portions of the Union force. During the second week of September, he had several chances to destroy isolated portion of the Union army, but command dissension resulted in several bungled, attempts to punish the Chickamauga, Georgia Battle of Chickamauga, September 19 the second Day

• Union solider encountered confederate cavalrymen and ushered in a confused general engagement that lasted all day and spread southward for nearly four miles. Both Rosecrans and Bragg sent troops into the fighting, although the thick forest made it difficult for large bodies of troops to maneuver. At one point, a body of Confederates achieved a breakthrough and threated to seize the Lafayette road, but Northern reinforcements regained the lost ground. At the end of the day ,the Union troops had withstood repeated attacks without losing their connection to Chattanooga Fighting on The Final Day

• Shortly after 11 a.m. on the 20th Rosecrans came to believe that a Union division in the center by moving out of position. In order to rectify the situation Rosecrans division under Brigadier General Thomas J. Wood northward to fill the supposed hole. But a massive Confederate attack led by Longstreet Major General George H. Thomas began at this time with thousands of Southerners charging into the real gap left by Wood's movement 3rd Day September 20 Chickamauga Continued

• By noon disaster had engulfed the center and right wings of the Union army. • Rosecrans ,several of his principal subordinates, and many of their men into a retreat northward to Chattanooga Chickamauga Casualty Count • Confederate Losses • {Total- 18,000 • Killed –2,312 • Captured/Missing 1,468 • Wounded 1,674 • Union Losses • Total- 16,000 • - Killed 1,657 • -Wounded 9,756 • Captured/Missing 4,757