"Snodgrass Hill, 1863" Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Jul 2019 3:41 p.m. PST |
"I've been meaning to do an article about this closing act of the Battle of Chickamauga since I started this blog six years ago. Snodgrass Hill was where my great-great grandfather, John Fletcher Hill, fought in a near-suicidal rear-guard action against the onslaught by a victorious Confederate army. I wanted to honor him and the handful of incredibly brave Union soldiers who did this heroic thing. I won't relate the entire three-day battle of Chickamauga (at least in this single post). In many ways that horrific battle was even more complicated and bloody than Gettysburg, which took place a little over two months before. And, for those of you fussbudgets who are still bothered by my increasingly misnamed blog, aside from Gettysburg, Chickamauga was probably one of the most unobscure battles in the Civil War. And one of the most thoroughly documented. But I wanted to zero in on the final hours of the heroic last stand by a few, forlorn and, in the end, forgotten defenders who held off the victorious Confederate hordes of Braxton Bragg while their comrades made their escape…"
Full text here
obscurebattles.blogspot.com
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| Cleburne1863 | 19 Jul 2019 4:52 p.m. PST |
That map is already wrong. The map creator or author has a fundamental misunderstanding of the terrain features and where the units were deployed in relation to them.
The headquarters map icons are wrong as well.
I'm not usually one to say negative things about another creator's work, but I'm skeptical of the accuracy of this blog. |
| Tango01 | 20 Jul 2019 12:13 p.m. PST |
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| 138SquadronRAF | 31 Jul 2019 11:45 a.m. PST |
This is really helpful in understanding the battle: YouTube link |
| Blutarski | 31 Jul 2019 5:23 p.m. PST |
However the Snodgrass Hill analysis may be, I do recommend checking out the other case studies on the ObscureBattles blogsite. I used to visit regularly and there is some great stuff here. B |
| Tango01 | 03 Aug 2019 3:49 p.m. PST |
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completes his initial Union force in 1:72nd scale.
