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November 10, 2018

Lieutenant Colonel Porter Olson’s Report on the 36th Illinois Infantry at the Battle of Missionary Ridge

After his army was defeated at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, Major General William Rosecrans retreated to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Confederate General Braxton Bragg then laid siege to Chattanooga, occupying the high ground...

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February 2, 2018

Lieutenant Colonel James B. McPherson’s Report on the Battle of Fort Donelson

Before he was a corps commander in the Union Army, James B. McPherson served as chief engineer and aide de camp on the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant during that general’s 1862 campaigns,...

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November 20, 2017

Brigadier General William Hazen and Major Joab Stafford’s Reports on the Battle of Missionary Ridge.

After capturing Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 24th, 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant prepared to drive General Braxton Bragg’s Confederates off the high ground of Missionary Ridge and secure Chattanooga for...

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May 21, 2017

Colonel Benjamin Allen’s Report on the 16th Wisconsin Infantry at the Battle of Shiloh

The 16th Wisconsin Infantry was organized in January of 1862 and departed the state for St. Louis in March of that year. The regiment left St. Louis on March 15th, traveling down the Mississippi,...

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February 19, 2017

The Dover Hotel Was the Site of the Surrender of Fort Donelson to U.S. Grant

In February of 1862, Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant led a combined army and navy campaign against the Confederate garrisons on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers in the state of Tennessee near the Kentucky...

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November 19, 2016

Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Randall’s Report on the 149th New York Infantry at the Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

In late November 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant began operations to lift the siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Union Army of the Cumberland under Major General William Rosecrans had retreated to Chattanooga following...

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September 11, 2016

Captain Eli Lilly’s Report on the 18th Indiana Battery at the Battle of Chickamauga

Before the Civil War, and before he founded the pharmaceutical company that bears his name, Eli Lilly was a pharmacist in Greencastle, Indiana. When the war began, Lilly recruited men for a company of...

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April 3, 2016

Reports of Colonel James M. Tuttle and Colonel William T. Shaw on the Fighting at the Hornet’s Nest at the Battle of Shiloh

Following the initial successful Confederate assault at the opening of the Battle of Shiloh on April 6th, 1862, Union forces set up a defensive position in a tree line along a farm road (popularly...

Tagged: tennessee

Lieutenant Colonel Porter Olson’s Report on the 36th Illinois Infantry at the Battle of Missionary Ridge

Lieutenant Colonel James B. McPherson’s Report on the Battle of Fort Donelson

Brigadier General William Hazen and Major Joab Stafford’s Reports on the Battle of Missionary Ridge.

Colonel Benjamin Allen’s Report on the 16th Wisconsin Infantry at the Battle of Shiloh

The Dover Hotel Was the Site of the Surrender of Fort Donelson to U.S. Grant

Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Randall’s Report on the 149th New York Infantry at the Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

Captain Eli Lilly’s Report on the 18th Indiana Battery at the Battle of Chickamauga

Reports of Colonel James M. Tuttle and Colonel William T. Shaw on the Fighting at the Hornet’s Nest at the Battle of Shiloh

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