Posted on 09/19/2019 6:59:30 AM PDT by fugazi
Today's post is in honor of Sgt. Richard W. Perry, who was one of four "E" Company Marines killed on this date in 1966 during Operation PRAIRIE in the Republic of Vietnam's Quang Tri province. Perry, 24-years-old from Marion, Ark., had recently re-enlisted and was assigned to 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star.
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: (Featured image) 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, Va. - 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
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*Chickamauga*
My Great Grandfather was with the 18th Alabama at Chickamauga.
They broke the Union lines and were probably the reason the Confederacy won. It was one of those battles the Confederates won but probably wish had never occurred as they could not afford to lose nearly as many as the Union.
3rd Battle of Winchester is the only instance of a major battle I know of in North America where cavalry was used in shock action as the Union cavalry corps charged and shattered the Confederate left. One of the Union brigade commanders was Custer.
Why is it the focus for establishing US as a country has always been on July 4th 1776 the date of the Declaration of Independence. And September 2nd completely forgotten perhaps because of Labor Day when we were actually officially recognized September 2nd 1882 at the Paris Accord treaty as an independent nation officially created country six years later. (Then ratified by all states a year and a day later (September 3rd 1883) . Also forgotten Sept 2nd ironically centuries later September 2nd 1945 WWII officially ended signed by Japan on the battleship Missouri.., Yet both dates remain unobserved.
The Paris peace treaty ending the War for Independence was signed on September 3rd, 1783. The preliminary version (nearly identical to the final version) was signed on Nov. 30, 1782.
My Great Grand father fought in and was injured at the Battle of Chickamauga as a member of the Wisconsin 24th Vol Infantry
We have a relative in the family tree who, while fighting on the Union Side, as a volunteer from Illinois, was captured by Confederate forces during the battle of Chickamauga.
The battle of Chickamauga was critical to both sides, because it was the north’s best land route down into Atlanta. That made the offense and defense so fierce.
Our relative captured at Chickamauga wound up at the notorious Confederate prison camp at Andersonville. He died there from the guards mercy killing, which he sought after months of dying slowly from starvation and never ending dysentery. The only source of the prisoners’ water at Andersonville was also their sewer - a little stream that ran down the middle of the encampment.
At Andersonville, when you just could not take the slow death by starvation and perpetual illness any longer, it was understood that if you just walked past a certain line, as if you were “escaping”, the guards would mercifully end your suffering. The guards were not in a position to improve conditions at Andersonville, but they were also not blind to the prisoners’ hell that was Andersonville.
Many court cases around the 1800s have measured citizenship from 1776.
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