Episode 50: LTC Bishop and the 2nd Minnesota face on 19 September CPL Carter and the 27th Mississippi and on 20 September LTC Ray of the 60th North Carolina and CPT Bailey of the 58th North Carolina at the Battle of Chickamauga

At the Battle of Chickamauga, 18 – 20 September 1863, the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War, LTC Bishop and the 2^nd Minnesota face CPL Carter and the 27^th Mississippi in vicinity of the Reed’s Bridge Road on 19 September. As the reserve for the XIV Corps on 20 September, they plug a hole in the line made by LTC Ray and the 60^th North Carolina’s Division around noon. After the Army of the Cumberland is split in two by LTG Longstreet’s Corps, LTC Bishop and the 2^nd Minnesota rush to Horseshoe Ridge where they hold the line against repeated Confederate assaults which include CPT Bailey and the 58^th North Carolina.

Sources used for this episode:

Bishop, Judson W. The Story of a Regiment; Being a Narrative of the Service of the Second Regiment, Minnesota Veteran Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War of 1861 – 1865. St. Paul, 1890. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t59c75p89&seq=9.

Sykes, E. T. ed. “Walthall’s Brigade; A Cursory Sketch, With Personal Experiences of Walthall’s Brigade, Army of Tennessee C.S.A., 1862 – 1865.” in Publications in the Mississippi Historical Society. Centenary Ser., Vol. 1. edited by Dunbar Rowland. Jackson: Mississippi Historical Society, 1916. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081900411&seq=9.

CPT Bailey, Isaac H. “Additional Sketch Fifty-Eighth Regiment.” in Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-’65, vol. 3, edited by Walter Clark. Raliegh: E. M. Uzzell, 1901. https://digital.ncdcr.gov/Documents/Detail/histories-of-the-several-regiments-and-battalions-from-north-carolina-in-the-great-war-1861-65-v.3/3931256?item=3931512.

LTC Ray, James M. “Sixtieth Regiment.” in Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-’65, vol. 3, edited by Walter Clark. Raliegh: E. M. Uzzell, 1901. https://digital.ncdcr.gov/Documents/Detail/histories-of-the-several-regiments-and-battalions-from-north-carolina-in-the-great-war-1861-65-v.3/3931256?item=3931512.