My great great grandfather and great great great uncle both in the 32nd Tennessee Infantry fought at the Battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge
But when the 6th Kentucky 41st and 42nd Ohio along with the 3rd infantry division of the Illinois 16th ànd Indiana 1st struck those lines ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE
@JohnAnglin-lh7bs Why are you being so rude Didn't your parents teach you any manners I'm just as proud of my Confederate ancestors whether they won or lost and if that's a problem for you I couldn't care less
@@travisbayles870Honor your ancestors… but never honor the confederacy. The cause of slavery & all its horrors is nothing to cheer. Which is why the flag is so offensive to so many human beings. It’s not your heritage it’s a belief in a system that you dont need to stick up for just cause great great granddaddy’s did. Hope this helps delineate a reasonable difference between your ancestors & a traitorous symbol of slavery
My Great Uncle, Corporal Jonas Hovis, fought in the CSA Army. He was captured at Champion Hill MS. His unit was the 39th Ga Vols. He was paroled by Grant and they went to Dalton, Ga to recover. He was from Lafayette, Ga where his wife and 2 daughters lived. He was my grand mothers Uncle. After his recovery, he was placed with his old regiment, company K. After leaving Lookout Mt. and marching all night, they arrived under Stevenson Division in Cummings Brigade under Gen. Patrick Cleuburn. As they were sent down the Mt to the Glass House to dislodge the Union soldiers. He was wounded and taken back to a hospital in Dalton where he died 5 days later.
I had a GGG grandfather in the 41st Mississippi who fought through Perryville, Stones River, and Chickamauga. He was captured during the charge up Missionary ridge. He survived the harsh prison conditions and walked all the way home from Springfield Illinois. He lost 2 brothers during the war and later moved down to Texas, marrying into another family of Mississippi veterans. His daughter would marry the son of a veteran of the 64th Illinois, another GGG grandfather. After four years of brutality, Illinois and Mississippi joined together in love. Time really heals all wounds :)
The Mississippi 41st Infantry Regiment was assembled at Pontotoc, Mississippi, 440 miles south of Springfield, Illinois... I'd bet it was your GGG Grandfather's favorite 7 day walk
So interesting! My own great-grandfather was Wounded in the battle of Missionary Ridge. He fought for the Confederacy, for hisland, they were never a slave-holding family, thank god.
I went to prep school (The McCallie School in Chattanooga) on Missionary Ridge. There is a Civil War Memorial at the crest of the ridge above the school. Literally 50 years ago while I was a student there, a history class from school scanned a small patch of the ridge with a metal detector and found absolutely N0 Civil War artifacts. Hardly a comprehensive search, but the general consensus was that the battlefield had been picked clean several decades prior.
Traveling thru Chattanooga going up interstates 24 or 75, you can imagine the siege and the battles of Chattanooga as U.S. Grant made his move to relieve union forces under siege by Bragg's Confederate army, holding the high ground of Missionary Ridge, which interstate 24 crosses over and Lookout Mountain, which Confederate troops occupied, with a grand view of the town with the Tennessee River at the Union Army's back. All Bragg can do is sit and wait for to starve the union forces into submission. But Grant had other ideas. His forces took Brown's ferry on the Tennessee, resulting in opening "The Cracker line": a union supply route which brought much needed supplies to the besieged union forces. And by taking Lookout Mountain, orchard knob, and routing Confederates from Missionary Ridge, although the union attack proceeded without orders, Grant's promotion to all Union armies was only a matter of time. It was the last battle that Grant and Sherman fought together in. Sherman was given command of all union forces in the West as Grant headed east to deal with Lee and laid out his plans for the 1864 spring offensive: to seize the Confederate rail city of Atlanta. And I learned that General Douglas McArthur's father was at Missionary Ridge, earning the Medal of honor for his bravery. 🇺🇲
I have an ancestor who was at Chickamga and Missionary Ridge,Chattanooga. He also partook in Corinth, Stones River, and Resaca. He was wounded in the right forearm at Resaca. He was transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corp afterward. The next thing I'm about to put sounds false, but it's the absolute truth. He was posted as a guard for president Lincoln body when it was at Indianapolis, Indiana. Jacob H Colver. 51st Il Inf Co D Sheridans Division, Army of the Cumberland
Chattanooga and the surrounding area is a treasure trove for Civil War history buffs. Battles and skirmishes were fought all over this area. Missionary Ridge is one of my favorite drives. If I feel like a slow drive I drive through the battlefield aka Chickamauga Battlefield. When I was physically able I used to love to climb the knob (Orchard Knob). I still go out of my way to park near and imagine the battle sometimes. I have been to Resaca many times to visit the cemetery where the fallen soldiers are buried. It is a very peaceful place. A nice place just to sit in my car and think.
My great great grandfather and great great great uncle both in the 32nd Tennessee Infantry fought at the Battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge
But when the 6th Kentucky 41st and 42nd Ohio along with the 3rd infantry division of the Illinois 16th ànd Indiana 1st struck those lines ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE
You don't place your big guns overlooking the valley and blind to the embankment
My great great grandfather and my great great granduncle stormed that precipice. We won and you all lost. How does that make you feel Bayles???
@JohnAnglin-lh7bs Why are you being so rude Didn't your parents teach you any manners I'm just as proud of my Confederate ancestors whether they won or lost and if that's a problem for you I couldn't care less
@@travisbayles870Honor your ancestors… but never honor the confederacy. The cause of slavery & all its horrors is nothing to cheer. Which is why the flag is so offensive to so many human beings. It’s not your heritage it’s a belief in a system that you dont need to stick up for just cause great great granddaddy’s did. Hope this helps delineate a reasonable difference between your ancestors & a traitorous symbol of slavery
My Great Uncle, Corporal Jonas Hovis, fought in the CSA Army. He was captured at Champion Hill MS. His unit was the 39th Ga Vols. He was paroled by Grant and they went to Dalton, Ga to recover. He was from Lafayette, Ga where his wife and 2 daughters lived. He was my grand mothers Uncle. After his recovery, he was placed with his old regiment, company K. After leaving Lookout Mt. and marching all night, they arrived under Stevenson Division in Cummings Brigade under Gen. Patrick Cleuburn. As they were sent down the Mt to the Glass House to dislodge the Union soldiers. He was wounded and taken back to a hospital in Dalton where he died 5 days later.
I had a GGG grandfather in the 41st Mississippi who fought through Perryville, Stones River, and Chickamauga. He was captured during the charge up Missionary ridge. He survived the harsh prison conditions and walked all the way home from Springfield Illinois. He lost 2 brothers during the war and later moved down to Texas, marrying into another family of Mississippi veterans. His daughter would marry the son of a veteran of the 64th Illinois, another GGG grandfather. After four years of brutality, Illinois and Mississippi joined together in love. Time really heals all wounds :)
Salute to your Confederate ancestors
The Mississippi 41st Infantry Regiment was assembled at Pontotoc, Mississippi, 440 miles south of Springfield, Illinois... I'd bet it was your GGG Grandfather's favorite 7 day walk
My bad, I mean 21 day + walk
@@travisbayles870 salute to those fought for slavery? Looks like i know how much of a horrible person you are
So interesting! My own great-grandfather was Wounded in the battle of Missionary Ridge. He fought for the Confederacy, for hisland, they were never a slave-holding family, thank god.
I went to prep school (The McCallie School in Chattanooga) on Missionary Ridge. There is a Civil War Memorial at the crest of the ridge above the school.
Literally 50 years ago while I was a student there, a history class from school scanned a small patch of the ridge with a metal detector and found absolutely N0 Civil War artifacts. Hardly a comprehensive search, but the general consensus was that the battlefield had been picked clean several decades prior.
Traveling thru Chattanooga going up interstates 24 or 75, you can imagine the siege and the battles of Chattanooga as U.S. Grant made his move to relieve union forces under siege by Bragg's Confederate army, holding the high ground of Missionary Ridge, which interstate 24 crosses over and Lookout Mountain, which Confederate troops occupied, with a grand view of the town with the Tennessee River at the Union Army's back. All Bragg can do is sit and wait for to starve the union forces into submission. But Grant had other ideas. His forces took Brown's ferry on the Tennessee, resulting in opening "The Cracker line": a union supply route which brought much needed supplies to the besieged union forces. And by taking Lookout Mountain, orchard knob, and routing Confederates from Missionary Ridge, although the union attack proceeded without orders, Grant's promotion to all Union armies was only a matter of time. It was the last battle that Grant and Sherman fought together in. Sherman was given command of all union forces in the West as Grant headed east to deal with Lee and laid out his plans for the 1864 spring offensive: to seize the Confederate rail city of Atlanta. And I learned that General Douglas McArthur's father was at Missionary Ridge, earning the Medal of honor for his bravery. 🇺🇲
I have an ancestor who was at Chickamga and Missionary Ridge,Chattanooga. He also partook in Corinth, Stones River, and Resaca. He was wounded in the right forearm at Resaca. He was transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corp afterward. The next thing I'm about to put sounds false, but it's the absolute truth. He was posted as a guard for president Lincoln body when it was at Indianapolis, Indiana.
Jacob H Colver. 51st Il Inf Co D
Sheridans Division, Army of the Cumberland
Salute to your ancestor
Chattanooga and the surrounding area is a treasure trove for Civil War history buffs. Battles and skirmishes were fought all over this area. Missionary Ridge is one of my favorite drives. If I feel like a slow drive I drive through the battlefield aka Chickamauga Battlefield. When I was physically able I used to love to climb the knob (Orchard Knob). I still go out of my way to park near and imagine the battle sometimes. I have been to Resaca many times to visit the cemetery where the fallen soldiers are buried. It is a very peaceful place. A nice place just to sit in my car and think.
@@MaryAustinup Thats awesome Mary thanks for sharing