Posted on 09/19/2017 8:28:01 AM PDT by fugazi
1777: The Battle of Freeman's Farm — the first engagement in the Battle of Saratoga — opens between Continental forces under the command of Gen. Horatio Gates and British forces under Gen. John "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne. The Brits carry the day, but suffer heavy losses.
1863: On the border of Georgia and Tennessee, fighting begins in earnest between forces commanded by Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and Gen. Braxton Bragg. After two days of fighting, the Confederate Army of Tennessee inflicts 18,000 casualties on the Army of the Cumberland, driving Rosecrans from the battlefield, but Union soldiers kill, wound, and capture 16,000 Confederates. After Gettysburg, the Battle of Chickamauga marks the second-highest casualty totals of the Civil War.
1864: Lt. Gen. Jubal Early's Army of Shenandoah and Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's Army of the Valley meet in Winchester, W.V. - the third time Confederate and Union forces square off at that site. Sheridan manages to turn Early's left flank, leading to a Confederate retreat in what is considered perhaps the most crucial battle of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Casualties are heavy for both sides, and among the many fallen senior officers is Confederate brigade commander Col. George S. Patton, Sr. - grandfather of the legendary Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
1881: President James A. Garfield, who served as Rosecrans' chief of staff during the Battle of Chickamauga, finally succumbs to wounds suffered during an assassination
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WHAT civil war?
I though Antietam was the 2nd bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
A modern strategy game for the 1861-1865 War Between the States. I think Southern cessation was perfectly legal and therefore the CSA should have been considered an independent country. Calling it a “Civil War” seems inaccurate.
The civil war was 1777???
Who knew?
my GGranddaddy was with Sheridan. He had a different comical story behind the charge.
Where I got confused:
“The number of casualties at the Battle of Antietam, a.k.a Battle of Sharpsburg, still stand as the highest single-day casualty total in all of American history.”
I always thought Antietam was the “bloodiest” battle — but it is “merely” the bloodiest day in American history. Other battles had more casualties, but lasted 2 or more days.
and among the many fallen senior officers is Confederate brigade commander Col. George S. Patton, Sr. - grandfather of the legendary Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. ............................... Uh oh? The Patton statues are next on the list.
bloodiest “single day”, about 22,700 casualties in both armies combined. At Gettysburg both Union Army and the Confederate armies lost more men than the total at Antietam. About 48,000 casualties total. At Chickamauga around 34,000 casualties for both armies
The Patton statues are next on the list.
I hate the left.
OK Jesus OK
Strong dislike.....
And old Rebel Sargeant was captured and put on a ditch digging detail. Every so often he’d lean on his shovel and say “Boy, we sure whupped ya’ll’s Yankee asses at Chickamauga.”
This drove the Yankee Sargeants crazy. So they called the old Rebel Sargeant in and told him “We want you to stop rubbin’ it in about how ya’ll whipped our asses at Chickamauga. So if you’ll knock that off we’ll make you a Yankee Sargeant. You can be in charge of your own Rebel ditch digging crew. You can bunk in the Yankee bunk house and eat with the Yankee Sargeants.”
The old Rebel took the deal. One day in the Yankee chow hall he stopped eating, thought for a second and said “You know? Them Rebels sure whupped our asses at Chickamauga.”
This...
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/162009/us-civil-war
Or if you need a computer game...
http://www.matrixgames.com/store/product.asp?gid=500
No nation on Earth recognized the Confederacy as a legitimate “independent country”
My “GGranddaddy” - one of them at least - was Sheridan’s boss, Ulysses S. Grant. The other was Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price, who was beaten on this day in 1862 by Rosecrans in the Battle of Iuka. Being descended from two opposing generals could by why I can’t decide to this day which side I would have fought for in the war.
Awesome, thanks. If you bring the board game, I’ll get beer and chicken wings. We can stay up late and brag about romantic conquests.
Have you played the computer game?
Hey, I like it! The American Civil War for Independence, 1777-— American Revolution Against Northern Aggression-—1860.
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