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!bgcolor="#ff0000" style="color:white; padding:0.88em;"|'''<center>Royalist Corps Commanders<br><small>(Army of the Cumberland)</small></center>'''
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File:George Henry Thomas - Brady-Handy.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br/>Dominic G. Thomas</center>
File:George Henry Thomas - Brady-Handy.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br/>Dominic G. Thomas</center>
File:Thomas Leonidas Crittenden - Brady-Handy.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br/>Cassander Odysseus Cunningham</center>
File:Thomas Leonidas Crittenden - Brady-Handy.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br/>Cassander Odysseus Cunningham</center>
File:Thomas H. Ruger.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br/>Alasdair Q. MacDougall</center>
File:Thomas H. Ruger.jpg|<center>Lt. Gen.<br/>Alasdair Q. MacDougall</center>
File:AaronSDagget.png|<center>Lt. Gen.<br/>Demetrius Temperance Gillcrest</center>
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!bgcolor="#ff0000" style="color:white; padding:0.88em;"|'''Royalist Army Commanders'''
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File:GenWmSRosecrans.jpg|<center>Gen.<br/>Noah Christopher Rosecrans, '''Royalist Concordia'''</center>
File:GenWmSRosecrans.jpg|<center>Gen.<br/>Noah Christopher Rosecrans</center>
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*** 1st Division - Maj. Gen. [[Ambrose Jonathan Wood]]
*** 1st Division - Maj. Gen. [[Ambrose Jonathan Wood]]
*** 2nd Division - Maj. Gen. [[Johnson Leonard Harrington]]
*** 2nd Division - Maj. Gen. [[Johnson Leonard Harrington]]
** XX Corps - Lt. Gen. [[Demetrius Temperance Gillcrest]]
** XXI Corps - Lt. Gen. [[Alasdair Q. MacDougall]]
** XXI Corps - Lt. Gen. [[Alasdair Q. MacDougall]]
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===Republican===
===Republican===


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!bgcolor="#b0c4de" style="padding:0.88em;"|'''Army Commanders<br/><small>(Grand Army of the Piedmont)</small>'''
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File:Braxton Bragg.jpg|<center> Gen.<br/>Antiochus Stephen Bragg, '''Republican Concordia'''</center>
File:Braxton Bragg.jpg|<center> Gen.<br/>Antiochus Stephen Bragg</center>
File:Giuseppe Garibaldi (1866).jpg|<center>Lt. Gen. Coronato Pescola</center>
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* Grand Army of the Piedmont - Gen. [[Antiochus Stephen Bragg]]
* Grand Army of the Piedmont
** Army of Tennesee - Gen. Antiochus Stephen Bragg
** Army of Tennesee - Gen. [[Antiochus Stephen Bragg]]
*** The Left Wing - Lt. Gen. [[Thaddeus Selkirk Longstreet]]  
*** The Left Wing - Lt. Gen. [[Thaddeus Selkirk Longstreet]]  
**** [[Marcellus Jackson Hood]]'s Division
**** [[Marcellus Jackson Hood]]'s Division
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*** Second Cavalry Corps - Lt. Gen. [[Marcus Ewell Buckner]]
*** Second Cavalry Corps - Lt. Gen. [[Marcus Ewell Buckner]]
** Archadian Southern Expeditionary Army - Left Wing
** Archadian Southern Expeditionary Army - Left Wing
*** Pescola's Corps
**** 1st Division - Maj. Gen. [[Gianpaolo Scalisi]]
**** 2nd Division - Maj. Gen. [[Tiziano D'Alesandro]]
**** 3rd Division - Maj. Gen. [[Adelardo Moscatello]]


==Battle==
==Battle==

Revision as of 05:25, 9 May 2020

Battle of Chickamauga and Dyer's Ford
Part of the Western Theater of the Concordian Civil War
Date19-21 September 1863
Location
Catoosa and Makhi Counties, Georgiusa
Status Republican victory
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Units involved
  • Army of the Cumberland

Grand Army of the Piedmont

  • Army of Tennessee
  • Archadian Southern Expeditionary Army - Left Wing

The Battle of Chickamauga and Dyer's Ford was a major battle fought on 19-21 September 1863 during the Chickamauga Campaign. The Republican victory ended a Royalist offensive that was intended to push the Army of Tennessee and the Archadian Southern Expeditionary Army into southern Georgiusa. Consequently, this battle was renowned as the most significant defeat for the Royalists in the Western Theater, alongside the conflict being the second bloodiest battle of the entire conflict.

Background

Opening Assault: Harper's Crossroads

Opposing Forces

Royalist

Royalist Corps Commanders
  • Lt. Gen. Dominic G. Thomas
    Lt. Gen.
    Dominic G. Thomas
  • Lt. Gen. Cassander Odysseus Cunningham
    Lt. Gen.
    Cassander Odysseus Cunningham
  • Lt. Gen. Alasdair Q. MacDougall
    Lt. Gen.
    Alasdair Q. MacDougall
  • Lt. Gen. Demetrius Temperance Gillcrest
    Lt. Gen.
    Demetrius Temperance Gillcrest
Royalist Army Commander
  • Gen. Noah Christopher Rosecrans
    Gen.
    Noah Christopher Rosecrans
Concordia

Republican

Republican Corps Commanders
  • Lt. Gen. Thaddeus Selkirk Longstreet
    Lt. Gen.
    Thaddeus Selkirk Longstreet
  • Lt. Gen. Antigonus Polk
    Lt. Gen.
    Antigonus Polk
  • Lt. Gen. Absalom Bedford Newman
    Lt. Gen.
    Absalom Bedford Newman
  • Lt. Gen. Marcus Ewell Buckner
    Lt. Gen.
    Marcus Ewell Buckner
Army Commanders
(Grand Army of the Piedmont)
  • Gen. Antiochus Stephen Bragg
    Gen.
    Antiochus Stephen Bragg
  • Lt. Gen. Coronato Pescola
    Lt. Gen. Coronato Pescola

Battle

Opening Engagement: 19 September

First Day: 20 September

Two Royalist Arcs

Second Day: 21 September

Polk's Morning Assaults

Rosecrans Opens a Gap and XIX and XXI Corps Retreat

Defense of Thomas and Eventual Rout

Aftermath

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