The Chattanooga Campaign: With especial reference to Wisconsin's participation therein

The Chattanooga Campaign: With especial reference to Wisconsin's participation therein

After the battle of Gettysburg in the East, and the siege of Vicksburg in the West, attention was riveted during the later summer and autumn of 1863 on the campaign around Chattanooga. Seated on the heights along the southern border of Tennessee, that city commanded highways running through the very heart of the Confederacy. The result at Gettysburg had demonstrated that no Southern army could invade the North; the Union victory at Vicksburg determined that the Mississippi should run unhindered to the sea. The battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge not only decided that Kentucky and Tennessee should remain in the Union, but they opened the way for Shermans advance on Atlanta and his March to the Sea, which cut the Confederacy in two and made Lees surrender a necessity. The War between the States saw no more stubborn fighting than raged on September 19th and[xii] 20th around the old Cherokee stronghold of Chickamauga. Two months later, occurred the three days battle around the hill city of Chattanooga. In all these events, the citizen soldiers of Wisconsin played a conspicuous part, which is herein described by a participant and student of these famous contests. In these battles the reputations of officers were made and unmade, and from them emerged the great generals who were to carry the Union arms to complete victoryThomas, Sherman, Sheridan, and Grant. Colonel Fitch, the author of this volume, began his service July 16, 1861, as Sergeant-Major of the Sixth Wisconsin; he was commissioned First-Lieutenant in October following, and in the succeeding April was appointed Adjutant of the Twenty-first; he became, in succession, Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of that regiment, and in March, 1865, was brevetted Colonel of Volunteers for gallant and meritorious services during the war. He served chiefly with the Army of Potomac, Army of Virginia, Army of Ohio, and Army of Cumberland. He commanded his regiment from July 1, 1864; and on the March to the Sea; and in the Carolinas headed a wing of the[xiii] brigade, consisting of the Twenty-first Wisconsin, the Forty-second Indiana, and the One Hundred-and-fourth Illinois. Later, he was assigned to the command of the Second Brigade of the Fourteenth Army Corps. He now lives at Pueblo, Colorado. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68855
Author: Fitch, Michael Hendrick
Release Date: Aug 28, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Wisconsin History Commission
Publication Date: 1911
Publisher Country: United States