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Definition of Battle of Chickamauga
1. Noun. A Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces.
Generic synonyms: Pitched Battle
Group relationships: American Civil War, United States Civil War, War Between The States
Geographical relationships: Al, Alabama, Camellia State, Heart Of Dixie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Battle Of Chickamauga
Literary usage of Battle of Chickamauga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest by John Allan Wyeth (1908)
"CHAPTER XI THE battle of Chickamauga General Forrest Opens the battle of Chickamauga
on the Afternoon of Friday, September 18, 1863—Engages the Enemy on ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... Report of the Effective Strength of the several Regiments composing Adams'
Brigade, carried into the battle of Chickamauga, on each day of the battle. ..."
3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1899)
"The action of that day was indecisive.2 This was the prelude to the fierce and
bloody battle of Chickamauga, " the great battle of the West," which raged ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... on the seventeenth and eighteenth istant, and at the battle of Chickamauga,
on he nineteenth and twentieth instant. ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"... and on September 19 and 20, 1863, was fought the battle of Chickamauga, one
of the greatest and most fiercely contested battles of the war. ..."
6. Publications by Mississippi Historical Society (1916)
"Longstreet's troops twitting, preliminary to battle of Chickamauga. 528. ...
JB, 29th Mississippi, wounded in battle of Chickamauga 529. Morgan. ..."
7. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"He held Owen's Gap at the battle of Chickamauga in September, BELKNAP, George
Eugene, naval officer, was born at Newport, NH, Jan. 22, 1832 In October, ..."
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