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Posted on 9/8/13 at 9:27 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 9/8/13 at 9:27 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Personally don't read as often as when they were all in the same thread. I don't read them every day but will read 3 or 4 days at one time if I wasn't able to keep current. The problem then was I wasn't going to go back and search for 3 or 4 separate postings to catch up. If they're all in one place, it was convenient to stay caught up.
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Posted on 9/9/13 at 4:02 am to reedus23
Wednesday, 9 September 1863
General Braxton Bragg, CSA, commander of the Army of Tennessee, had defended his state from General William Rosecrans’ Federal Army of the Cumberland mostly by advancing to the rear. He had retreated so efficiently that he was now in Chattanooga, almost backing into Georgia. Despite Chattanooga’s superb geography for a defensive battle, Bragg abruptly abandoned the city to its fate this morning for fear that Rosecrans was circling to his rear and would cut him off from any escape. General James Longstreet had been detached from the Army of Northern Virginia to come to Bragg’s aid. Thanks to Bragg’s retreat from Knoxville, which had cost the Confederacy a valuable railroad center, Longstreet and his men had to take a more roundabout route through North Carolina and Atlanta to get there. They would not arrive for ten more days, and even then some of their luggage (guns) got lost along the way.
Rear Admiral John Dahlgren mounted a boat attack on Fort Sumter late at night. Commander Stevens led the assault, comprising more than thirty boats and some 400 sailors and Marines. The Confederates, appraised in advance of the Union's intentions because they had recovered a key to the Northern signal code from the wreck of the USS Keokuk, waited until the boats were nearly ashore before opening a heavy fire and using hand grenades. The CSS Chicora contributed a sweeping, enfilading fire. Dahlgren noted that "...Moultrie fired like the devil, the shells breaking around us and screaming in chorus." The attack was brutally repulsed by the Southerners, and more than 100 men were captured. For the next several weeks, with the Yankees licking their wounds, a period of relative quiet at Charleston prevailed.
Union Colonel Cloud, with his ten thousand plus man division, belonging to the army of General Blunt, attacked a body of less than one thousand Confederates at Dardanelle, Arkansas, and defeated them, capturing their entire camp and a large amount of stores.
Lieutenant Colonel Hays, with companies A, B, H, and parts of E and F, of the One Hundredth Ohio Infantry clashed with the Confederate-aligned Thomas' Legion just east of the depot near Telford, Tennessee, ninety-three miles up the railroad. The Confederate force was supported by 4-Howitzer artillery units, commanded by General Alfred "Mudwall" Jackson. The Union troops, losing heavily in killed and wounded, were finally compelled to surrender to the overpowering Southerners. Federal loss by the affair was about three hundred, killed, wounded, and prisoners, of which an undue proportion were commissioned officers.
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General Braxton Bragg, CSA, commander of the Army of Tennessee, had defended his state from General William Rosecrans’ Federal Army of the Cumberland mostly by advancing to the rear. He had retreated so efficiently that he was now in Chattanooga, almost backing into Georgia. Despite Chattanooga’s superb geography for a defensive battle, Bragg abruptly abandoned the city to its fate this morning for fear that Rosecrans was circling to his rear and would cut him off from any escape. General James Longstreet had been detached from the Army of Northern Virginia to come to Bragg’s aid. Thanks to Bragg’s retreat from Knoxville, which had cost the Confederacy a valuable railroad center, Longstreet and his men had to take a more roundabout route through North Carolina and Atlanta to get there. They would not arrive for ten more days, and even then some of their luggage (guns) got lost along the way.
Rear Admiral John Dahlgren mounted a boat attack on Fort Sumter late at night. Commander Stevens led the assault, comprising more than thirty boats and some 400 sailors and Marines. The Confederates, appraised in advance of the Union's intentions because they had recovered a key to the Northern signal code from the wreck of the USS Keokuk, waited until the boats were nearly ashore before opening a heavy fire and using hand grenades. The CSS Chicora contributed a sweeping, enfilading fire. Dahlgren noted that "...Moultrie fired like the devil, the shells breaking around us and screaming in chorus." The attack was brutally repulsed by the Southerners, and more than 100 men were captured. For the next several weeks, with the Yankees licking their wounds, a period of relative quiet at Charleston prevailed.
Union Colonel Cloud, with his ten thousand plus man division, belonging to the army of General Blunt, attacked a body of less than one thousand Confederates at Dardanelle, Arkansas, and defeated them, capturing their entire camp and a large amount of stores.
Lieutenant Colonel Hays, with companies A, B, H, and parts of E and F, of the One Hundredth Ohio Infantry clashed with the Confederate-aligned Thomas' Legion just east of the depot near Telford, Tennessee, ninety-three miles up the railroad. The Confederate force was supported by 4-Howitzer artillery units, commanded by General Alfred "Mudwall" Jackson. The Union troops, losing heavily in killed and wounded, were finally compelled to surrender to the overpowering Southerners. Federal loss by the affair was about three hundred, killed, wounded, and prisoners, of which an undue proportion were commissioned officers.
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