"Attacked at Midnight" Topic
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Tango01 | 26 Apr 2022 9:31 p.m. PST |
The Battle of Wauhatchie, October 28-29, 1863 "A month after the Battle of Chickamauga, help was on its way to the Union army besieged at Chattanooga. To stop this effort, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet launched a rare night attack aimed at a small Union force at Wauhatchie, Tennessee.
After a long day's march, 18 year-old Lieutenant Edward Geary and a few of his comrades from Knap's Pennsylvania Battery ventured into Nickajack Cave, a grotto in the Raccoon Mountains and something of a "curiosity" to the men of the Union Twelfth Corps camping near Shellmound, Tennessee. The cave had once been the site of an installation that was reportedly the Confederacy's chief source of saltpeter. That installation had since been abandoned, leaving Geary and his comrades to marvel at the cave's magnificent high ceiling and the crystal clear water that ran for miles underground. The young men were accompanied by Edward's father, their division commander, Brig. Gen. John W. Geary, who delighted in watching his son's face "enlivened with all the vivacy which the scene excited."…"
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gamertom | 27 Apr 2022 6:10 p.m. PST |
An amusing "myth" or "tall tale" grew up about this confused engagement. Grant claimed in an article in Battles and Leaders that a pack of mules, abandoned by their mule-skinners, panicked during the battle, and ran into a unit of Law's brigade. Allegedly the Confederates thought this was a cavalry charge and was a basis for their withdrawal. This "mule charge" did not occur. |
donlowry | 28 Apr 2022 9:13 a.m. PST |
The mules were then recommended for promotion to the brevet rank of horses. |
Tango01 | 28 Apr 2022 3:33 p.m. PST |
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