. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. ly and to properly commem-orate their courage and fidelity we must recall and contemplate the eventsin which they took so distinguished a part. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but itcan never forget what they did here. The summer of 1863 found the Confederacy cut in two. Vicksburg andPort Hudson had fallen, and the Union gunboats plied up and down in itsgreat artery—the Mississippi. Lees invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvaniahad been checked and va
. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. ly and to properly commem-orate their courage and fidelity we must recall and contemplate the eventsin which they took so distinguished a part. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but itcan never forget what they did here. The summer of 1863 found the Confederacy cut in two. Vicksburg andPort Hudson had fallen, and the Union gunboats plied up and down in itsgreat artery—the Mississippi. Lees invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvaniahad been checked and vanquished at Gettysburg. The beginning of the endseemed near at hand, and doubtless many brave Confederates then fearedthe final termination of the struggle which the opportunity offered theUnion armies to conquer their opponents in detail. Under this pressuredesperate measures were needed. Their evolution was the battles of Chicka-mausrn, Lookout Mountain, and Chattanooga. W. S. Rosecrans was in command of the Army of the Cum-berland, consisting of five army corps. The 14th, Geo. H. Thomas;. COLONEL HENRY M. HISTORY OF MICHIGAN ORGANIZATIONS. 2H1 •the 20th, A. D. McCook; the 21st, T. L. Crittenden; theReserve corps, Gordon Granger, and the cavalry corps, B. Mitchell, commanding in the disability of D. S. Bragg was in command of the Confederate army, consisting of sevencorps, commanded by Lieutenant General Longstreet, Lieutenant GeneralPolk, Lieutenant General D. H. Hill, Major General Buckner, Major GeneralWalker, Major General Wheeler, and the cavalry corps under Brigadier Gen-eral N. B. Forrest. In the early part of September, 1863, Bragg had eitherbeen maneuvered out of Chattanooga by Rosecrans, or had purposely evacu-ated it to draw Rosecrans on beyond the almost impassable heights of Mis-sionary Ridge, Lookout and Pigeon Mountains, then with the support ofthe troops e
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