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- [S10457] Find a Grave (Killed in Action - Civil War), YARBROUGH Edwin - PVT Confederate Army - 1829-1863 (Veteran) (KILLED IN ACTION).
BIRTH: 1829 Stewart County, Tennessee
DEATH: 19 Aug 1863 (aged 33–34) Chickamauga, Walker County, Georgia
BURIAL: West Hill Cemetery, Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia
MEMORIAL ID: 77838940
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77838940/edwin-yarbrough
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Burial Monument-YARBROUGH Edwin
Edwin Yarbrough - West Hill Cemetery (Confederate Cemetery) Dalton GA + https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77838940/edwin-yarbrough |
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- [S5283] Fold3 - Killed in Action: Edwin Yarbrough, CSA 1829-1863, PVT (Private) Edwin Yarbrough, Company F, 50th Tennessee Infantry, CSA Killed in Action at Battle of Chickamauga in Civil War.
Page 1 - Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee 1862
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- [S1610] USWars: Battle of Fort Donelson - My Civil War, (Name: USWars;), Battle of Fort Donelson.
The Battle of Fort Donelson
February 14-16, 1862 in Fort Donelson, Tennessee
https://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/620214.html
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History-Battle of Fort Donelson (Civil War)
The Battle of Fort Donelson February 14-16, 1862 in Fort Donelson, Tennessee Union Forces Commanded by Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Flag-Officer A.H. Foote Strength-27,000 est, Killed-446, Wounded-1,735, Missing/Captured-? Confederate Forces Commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd, Brig. Gen. Gideon Pillow, and Brig. Gen. Simon B.… |
- [S1839] American Battlefields: Battle of Chickamauga, (Name: American Battlefield Trust; Location: Washington DC;), CIVIL WAR - Battle of Chickamauga.
The Confederate army secured a decisive victory at Chickamauga but lost 20 percent of its force in battle. After two days of fierce fighting, the Rebels broke through Union lines and forced the Federals into a siege at Chattanooga.
How it ended
Confederate victory. At the end of a summer that had seen disastrous Confederate losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the triumph of the Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga was a well-timed turn-around for the Confederates, but it came at a great cost. Chickamauga was the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War, ranking only behind Gettysburg, and was by far the deadliest battle in the Western Theater.
In context
The small city of Chattanooga, with 2,500 inhabitants, lay on the banks of the Tennessee River where it cut through the Appalachian Mountains. It was the crossroads for four major railroads. President Abraham Lincoln knew that if his army could capture Chattanooga, vital Confederate supply lines would be severed, and the war would be closer to an end.
In the summer of 1863, the Confederate army was reeling from a string of losses in the Western Theater, while the success of the Tullahoma Campaign bolstered the confidence of Union Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans. Targeting Chattanooga, Rosecrans outmaneuvered the Rebel army and forced Confederate general Braxton Bragg to relinquish control of the critical transportation hub without a fight.
Rosecrans assumed that Bragg’s demoralized army would retreat further south into Rome, Georgia. He divided his army into three corps and scattered them throughout Tennessee and Georgia. But Rosecrans made a mistake—Bragg had in fact concentrated his men at LaFayette, Georgia, where he was expecting reinforcements and was close to a vulnerable corps of Rosecrans’s army. When Bragg’s troops crossed Chickamauga Creek, the Federals had a fight on their hands.
Although Bragg’s original plan was the destruction of the Army of the Cumberland and the recapture of Chattanooga, the results of two days of bitter fighting at Chickamauga stalled him. He decided to occupy the heights surrounding Chattanooga and lay siege to the city instead. Just two months later, the reinforced Federals drove the Army of Tennessee from their positions around Chattanooga, permanently securing Northern control of the city. With that loss, the Southern victory at Chickamauga was turned into a strategic defeat.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/chickamauga
- [S1609] American Battlefields: Battle of Fort Donelson, (Name: American Battlefield Trust; Location: Washington DC;), CIVIL WAR - Battle of Fort Donelson.
The decisive Union victory at Fort Donelson thrust Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant into the national spotlight and enabled Union advances up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.
How it ended
Union victory. The capture of forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee were major victories for Ulysses S. Grant. Grant received a promotion to major general for his success and attained stature in the Western Theater, earning the nom de guerre “Unconditional Surrender Grant.”
In context
Early in the war, Union commanders realized that control of the major rivers would be the key to success in the Western Theater. After capturing Fort Henry on the Tennessee River on February 6, 1862, Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant advanced 12 miles to invest Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. Operations against Donelson were part of an amphibious campaign launched in early 1862 to push the Confederates out of middle and western Tennessee, thereby opening a path into the Southern heartland.
The Union victory at Fort Donelson forced the Confederacy to give up southern Kentucky and much of Middle and West Tennessee. The Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, as well as railroads in the area, became vital Federal supply lines, and Nashville became a huge supply depot for the Union army in the west.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/fort-donelson
- [S6518] Find a Grave: LEGATE Harriet Yarbrough 1838-.
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