Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia.
To the south winds the river of Death along whose densely wooded bank, on the 19th and 20th of September, 1863, lay thirty thousand dead, dying and wounded Confederate and Federal soldiers.
The
battle of Chickamauga,
Georgia, is justly regarded as one of the most bloody conflicts of the war.
General Bragg's effective force on the first day of the battle, September 19, 1863, exclusive of cavalry, was a little over thirty-five thousand men, which was in the afternoon reinforced by five brigades of
Longstreet's corps numbering about five thousand effective infantry, without artillery.
The Confederate loss was in proportion to the prolonged and obstinate struggle, and two-fifths of these gallant troops were killed and wounded.
Dr. A. E. Flewellen, the
Medical Director of the Army of Tennessee, who is with us at this reunion, active and energetic in body and mind, at the age of seventy years, gave the following estimate of the
Confederate losses in this bloody
battle of Chickamauga:
