The Battle of Chickamauga was the Confederacy’s biggest win in the Western Theater during the war, .......... ??? Pappy Thomas? (Buried in Troy NY?) The original “The Rock”.
It’s not wrong to say Chickamauga was the biggest win in the West for the Rebs. They had just a few major victories, and, Bragg was in charge for at least two (Perryville and Chickamauga).
All Thomas’ stand did was keep our army from being totally destroyed by the Rebs.
Once Longstreet hit the hole that our Gen. Wood left in the line, our army ran..RAN.. back to Chattanooga, Gen Rosecrans in the lead. He told Thomas to hold, and, he did, but, his Corps was shred, scattered and running also.
The only thing that saved our army from ending up in the Tennessee River all together was that Polk and Bragg were totally useless as battle commanders.
Yeh, we got our butts handed to us at Chickamauga.