It ended with McCook, Crittendon and Negley charged with misconduct and was immediately preceded by a skirmish at Davis' Cross Roads.
It ended with McCook, Crittendon and Negley charged with misconduct and was immediately preceded by a skirmish at Davis' Cross Roads. Attempts to attack the Army of the Cumberland one piece at a time were foiled by Polk's and Hindman's excessive caution. Longstreet's reinforcements happened to attack a hole in the enemy's lines, which led to a retreat. When his superiors fled the battlefield, General Thomas Reynolds was left to hold the union lines himself at Snodgrass Hill, a job that later earned him the title of the "Rock of" this place. Fought at a creek whose Cherokee name translates to "river of death", it was a tactical victory for General Bragg, as Union forces retreated to Chattanooga. FTP, name this battle that cost General Rosecrans his job, the greatest Confederate victory in the west.
It ended with McCook, Crittendon and Negley charged with misconduct and was immediately preceded by a skirmish at Davis' Cross Roads.
Battle of {Chickamauga}