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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2. Search the whole document.
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Knoxville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 45
Chapter 45: Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge.
On August 20th the bloody battle of Chickamauga was fought and our troops slept inside the intrenchments of the enemy.
A month later Brigadier-General William Preston who was a gallant figure in the fight, was sent to Mexico, with authority to recognize and treat with the new Emperor Maximilian.
The defeat of Rosecrans's army at Chickamauga was complete, but the failure to promptly follow up the victory rendered it a barren one to the Confederates.
Bragg's army remained on the field of battle twenty-four hours, burying the dead and collecting arms, before the advance was begun, and then, moving slowly, found Rosecrans behind earthworks in and around Chattanooga.
Bragg immediately posted his army along Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, and planned to drive Rosecrans out of Chattanooga, or to starve him into surrender.
In this situation, General Grant was assigned to the command in Tennessee.
On October 23d he ar
Missionary Ridge (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
Chapter 45: Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge.
On August 20th the bloody battle of Chickamauga was fought and our troops slept inside the intrenchments of the enemy.
A month later Brigadier-General William Preston who was a gallant figure in the fight, was sent to Mexico, with authority to recognize and treat with the new Emperor Maximilian.
The defeat of Rosecrans's army at Chickamauga was complete, but the failure to promptly follow up the victory rendered it a barren one to the Confederates.
Bragg's army remained on the field of battle twenty-four hours, burying the dead and collecting arms, before the advance was begun, and then, moving slowly, found Rosecrans behind earthworks in and around Chattanooga.
Bragg immediately posted his army along Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, and planned to drive Rosecrans out of Chattanooga, or to starve him into surrender.
In this situation, General Grant was assigned to the command in Tennessee.
On October 23d he ar
Tunnel Hill (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
Missionary Ridge, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
Lookout Mountain, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
Chattanooga (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 45
James Longstreet (search for this): chapter 45
Hardee (search for this): chapter 45