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Chickamauga, according to soldier rumor, is a Cherokee word meaning ""River of Death."" It certainly lived up to that grim sobriquet in September 1863 when the Union Army of the Cumberland and Confederate Army of Tennessee waged bloody combat along the banks of West Chickamauga Creek. Long considered a two-day affair, award-winning author David Powell embraces a fresh approach that explores Chickamauga as a three-day battle, with September 18 being key to understanding how the fighting developed the next morning. The second largest battle of the Civil War produced 35,000 casualties and one of
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The Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's western theatre. It pitted Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee against William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland and resulted in more than 34,500 casualties. In this first volume of an authoritative two-volume history of the Chickamauga Campaign, William Glenn Robertson provides a richly detailed narrative of military operations in southeastern and eastern Tennessee as two armies prepared to meet along the 'River of Death.'
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"During the Chickamauga Campaign, General David Stanley's two Union cavalry divisions battled Nathan Bedford Forrest's and Joseph Wheeler's cavalry corps in some of the most difficult terrain for mounted operations. The Federal troopers, commanded by George Crook and Edward McCook, guarded flanks of the advance on Chattanooga, secured the crossing of Tennessee River, then pushed into enemy territory"--
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Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863. --- Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863. --- United States --- Tennessee --- History --- Campaigns.
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