i skipped over the raffle of chickamauga and chattanooga. there are reasons they are important and i will not go into the history of it that chickamauga happens in late 1853. it is a tremendous victory for the confederates. william rosenkranz was the union general who fell flat on his face and was a disaster. .it takes place in chickamauga there is no town of chickamauga, it's in northern georgia. the union army is in chaos and i run scrambling, retreating from the field and went back to their stronghold of chattanooga, tennessee across the border. it is bad. all of the confederate generals realized that this is an opportunity. think about what has just happened that summer -- gettysburg vicksburg, the morale in the north is sky high and morale in the south is in the pits. all of a sudden at chickamauga it turns around. we have defeated a major union army. all the confederate generals go to their commander, braxton bragg, a real piece of work, and they say we've got them let's go. b what's follow this upragg does not believe it. bragg does n

mexican war and the war in the west for the civil war and after, he wins his fame at the battle of chickamauga at the 20th of september, 1863. but that's not what we know him more. at the wars and on june 19, 1865, he was in command of

it's a disaster, it takes place in chickamauga, there is no town of chickamauga. it is in northern georgia. the union army is in chaos. they have run scrambling retreating from the field, back to their stronghold of chattanooga, tennessee, across the border. it is a mess. it is bad. all the confederate generals realize this is an opportunity. think about what just happened that summer, gettysburg, vicksburg. the morale in the north is sky high, the morale in the south is in the pits. all of a sudden, at chickamauga it turns around. we have defeated a major union army. all of the generals go to their commanders, and say, we've got them, let's go. follow us up. bragg doesn't believe it. he doesn't believe the army has been that successful. he is cautious. so he delays, he has people underneath him who are going crazy that he has delayed. instead of what bragg, he kind of goes and looks, sees the union army there and chattanooga. if you know the lay of the land there, it is really interesting. you have high mountains on two sides, and the tennessee river is right the

mexican war and the war in the west for the civil war and after, he wins his fame at the battle of chickamauga20th of september, 1863. but that's not what we know him more. at the wars and on june 19, 1865, he was in command of occupational troops in galveston, texas. it was gordon granger who issued general order number three which proclaimed to all the citizens of galveston and the citizens of texas that those who were previously held in slavery were now free, that they could exercise all the rights of every other citizen of the state of texas and the united states and if they were in slavery today, they would not eat in slavery anymore and would work for those who enslave them for wages that were fair. this is known as june 19, or juneteenth. it is celebrated every june 19 and texas and across the country. but it was warden granger who was the one who issued the famous order announcing the emancipation of all the slaves from his headquarters in galveston, texas. gordon granger, at one point in time, commanded the department of kentucky. it was probably during his command of the department o