Thank you for having me. Withdelighted to be here the emerging civil war. Lets talk about Horseshoe Ridge. Let me tell you that its not a horseshoe shaped nor a ridge. More on that later. In september 1863, the union army of a cumberland and Confederate Army of tennessee came together in north georgia and thought the threeday battle. The secondlargest battle of the civil war, 130,000 men. Approximately 340,000 casualties Confederate Army of tennessee out of that. One of the things i found while researching this is that everybody has a Different Number for the casualties. As noted, it is i a confusing battle. I will give you a brief sketch of the first two days of the battle. September 18, 1863, largely a recovering force action. Thank you, derek. Youre defining that. There are a lot of parallels with reactions on july 1 at gettysburg. Brigades went well. Across Chickamauga Creek for the best part of a full day. They disrupt the confederate battle plan. As a result, the fighting that be
60 miles across from one end to the other as it goes out to the sea. She said in reality it was more like fingers of destruction. Stitches through the landscape. Because the army was advancing down roads. And most places they stayed a day. If that much. So the destruction, the destruction is limited to how far off the roads they can go. So she said there are vast areas in between those roads. That were untouched by it. And those people of course applied food and help to the other people who had lost so much during the march. Its interesting, because i had not even thought about this. We do have this image of tsunami of fire going across and if fact it really is more like fingers of destruction going across georgia. Yes, sir . People in the valley recognized that sheridan not only planned, organized and carried out zonal destruction, so this was an order of destruction. And it was very thorough, although theres many other phases to it. But thats different than what happened in georgia.