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Show CHICKAMAUGA and ATLANTA THE battle of Chickamauga was fought September 19-20, 1863, when Gen. William Starke Eose-erans Eose-erans was marching on Chattanooga, with Gen. Braxton Bragg slowly retreating, re-treating, and expecting reinforcements. These reinforcements came suddenly and unknown to Rosecrans, relates a writer in the Indianapolis News. Bragg halted at Chickamauga, and deployed his troops. Rosecrans placed his troops with Gen. George Henry Thomas on the left, Maj. Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden Crit-tenden in the center, and Maj. Gen. Alexander McD. McCook on the right, along the Chickamauga creek. September Sep-tember 19, the Confederates crossed the creek, and Maj. Gen. Leonldas Polk struck Thomas' line. Thomas returned the assault, confusing Bragg's plan. September 20, Thomas was again attacked. He frequently called for reinforcements, though he held his position stoutly. Finally Gen. Thomas J. Wood, misinterpreting an order, made a false move, which precipitated . the Confederate attack on a weak point in the Federal line, and the day was lost. Rosecrans fled to Chattanooga, Chatta-nooga, but Thomas kept fighting until Gen. James Abram Garfield was sent to summon him. The combat engaged 55,000 Federals and 70,000 Confederates. Confed-erates. The Federals lost 16,000 and the Confederates 1S.000. The battle of Atlanta took place July 22, 1864, in Atlanta, between Gen. William Tecum-seh Tecum-seh Sherman's army of the Tennessee, numbering three corps, and Brig. Gen. John Bell Hood's corps of Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston's army. The Confederates Con-federates Were defeated and driven back to their intrenchments within the town. Hood began the attack on Brig. Gen. William E. Hardee on Sherman's left. Gen. James B. McPherson, of the Federals, gained a position on a high hill, commanding the heart of the town, and then the fight went on all along the line. Battery F. Second United States artillery, was lost In a sharp skirmish on a country road, and McPherson, riding to Us assistance, was killed. The battle lasted more than four hours. At four o'clock Hood plunged into the remnant rem-nant of McPherson's line and drove It back 400 yards, carrying two Important Im-portant batteries in the face of murderous mur-derous fire. Gen. John M. Schofield's batteries were hurried up to maintain main-tain this desirable position and aid the Fifteenth corps to regain Its lost ground, in which he was successful. Hood retreated to his intrenchments, having lost all his guns except the two advance ones. Sherman lost 3.722 men and Hood many more. Atlanta was afterward besieged by Sliernian and captured, on Hood's abandoning it, September 2, 1864. Flag of the Confederacy THE Stars and Bars flag was the original flag of the Confederacy, with three horizontal bars, red, white and red, and a blue union, on which were seven white stars arranged in a circle. The name is also sometimes applied to the later flag or Southern Cross, S ith blue St. Andrew's . cross bordered with white on a red back ground, and having three white stars on each arm and one at the intersection. Only eleven states actually seceded, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida. Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas. Two others, Kentuckj and Missouri, were expected to do so but remained in ttie Union. The sever stars in the original flag represented the ftrst seven states to secede. |