War games middle tennessee

Grant and the Union army in February The unconditional surrender of the fort on Febuary 16th, , shattered the Confederate defenses in western and middle Tennessee.

The equivalent of an entire corps was taken prisoner, and the Cumberland River was opened to the Union Navy. Within weeks Nashville would fall and the remaining Confederate forces would retreat into Mississippi. This state was used for this series of war games because of the similarity between the Tennessee countryside and the terrain of western Europe. During the course of the maneuvers, approximately , soldiers received training throughout Middle Tennessee.

Many were divided into two separate armies that fought each other using blank bullets and flour sack bombs. However, these war games were serious business. They were designed to train soldiers for important missions like the D-Day invasion of Normandy. He remembered the day the 82nd and the st Airborne Divisions landed in Macon County. The entire community turned out to watch as the sky filled with parachutes and gliders, as they descended on the Sullivan farm, three miles west of Lafayette….

OHIO-- st Infantry. OHIO-- 64th and 93d Infantry. IOWA-- 39th Infantry. Union loss, 27 killed, wounded, 70 missing. Union loss, 20 killed, 40 wounded. Union loss including Knob Gap Dec. OHIO-- 1st , 3d and 4th Cavalry. Section 3d Cavalry; 10th Infantry. Union loss, 3 wounded. OHIO-- 6th Indpt. Union loss, 2 killed, 1 wounded. Confederate Reports.. Union loss, 3 killed, 2 wounded, 16 missing.

Union loss, 1 wounded.. Union loss, 2 wounded. Union loss, I killed.. Union loss, 13 killed, 51 wounded, 47 missing. Skirmish, Murfreesborough Foraging party 20th Corps. Union loss, 2 wounded.. Union loss, 3 wounded.. Union loss, 1 wounded, 1 missing. OHIO-- 3d Cavalry. Union loss, 1 wounded, 16 missing. March 1 Skirmish near Woodbury Detachment 2d Brig. March 3 Skirmish, Bear Creek. OHIO-- th Infantry. OHIO-- 18th Indpt. Union loss, 48 killed, wounded, 1, captured and missing.

Total, 1, March 5 Skirmish. OHIO-- 49th Infantry. Union loss. March Reconnoissance from Salem to Versailles.. Union loss, 5 killed, 7 wounded. March Expedition to Perryville No Reports. March 13 Skirmish, Rover Confederate Reports. March 19 Skirmish, Liberty Confederate Reports. Union loss, 1 killed, 1 wounded.

Total, 2. Section ; st Infantry. Union loss, 7 killed, 48 wounded. March 21 Skirmish near Triune No Reports. Union loss, 5 missing. Union loss, 4 killed, 19 wounded, 40 missing. Union loss, 13 wounded, missing. Total Union loss, 11 missing. March 28 Skirmishes, Somerville and near Belmont.

Union loss, 13 killed, 38 wounded, 1 missing. March April 3. March 29 Affair, Moscow Capture of R. Train by Guerrillas. March April 1. Skirmishes near Eagleville Detachments 1 Brig.

April 2 Expedition from Readyville to Woodbury. Union loss, 1 killed, 1 wounded, 1 missing. Section ; 41st Infantry. Union loss, 1 killed, 8 wounded, 4 missing. OHIO-- 3rd and 4th Cavalry.

April 4 Skirmish, Woodbury No reports. April 4 Skirmish, Nonconah Creek, near Memphis. April Scout from Grand Junction to Saulsbury.. April Scout from La Grange to Mt. April 7 Skirmish.

R Wheeler's, Capture of trains. Section ; 18th Indpt. Union loss, 12 killed, 21 wounded. Union loss, 9 killed, 10 wounded. April 10 Skirmish, Harpeth River, near Franklin OHIO-- 40th Infantry. Pleasant and Early Grove, Miss. April 13 Skirmish near Chapel Hill. April 16 Skirmish near Eagleville No Reports. April May IOWA-- 2nd Cavalry. Union loss, 3 killed, 7 wounded. April Expedition from Memphis to Coldwater, Miss. Section ; 97th and th Infantry.

Marine Brigade; Ram "Monarch. Scout from La Grange into Northern Miss. May 1 Reconnoissance to Lizzard No Reports. May 3 Scout to Eagleville No Reports. Union loss, 1 killed, 2 wounded, 4 missing.

Union loss, 2 wounded, 2 missing. May 20 Affair, Colliersville Picket attack. Union loss, 1 killed, 9 missing. Union loss, 1 killed, 4 wounded, 4 missing.

May 25 Skirmish near Woodbury No Details. OHIO-- 9th and 35th Infantry. Union loss, 25 killed, wounded and missing. OHIO-- 3d , 4th and 10th Cavalry. June Expedition from Pocohontas to Ripley, Miss. Union loss, 4 Killed, 18 wounded, 6 missing. OHIO-- 10th Cavalry. June Raid in East Tennessee Saunders'. Union loss, 2 killed, 4 wounded, 21 missing.

June 15 Affair near Trenton No Reports. Detachments ; 44th Mounted Infantry Detachment. OHIO-- 13th , 15th , 19th , 41st and 49th Infantry. Union loss, 84 killed, wounded, 13 missing. Union loss, 27 killed, wounded, 2 missing. Union loss, 42 killed, wounded, 1 missing.

Section , 18th Indpt. Union loss, 15 killed, 64 wounded, 10 missing. June 28 Skirmish, Rover No Reports. OHIO-- 89th and 92d Infantry. July 1 Occupation of Tullahoma,,.. OHIO-- 14th Infantry. Scout in Sequatchie Valley,.. No Details. Expedition to Columbia and Centreville,.. July 3 Scout from Memphis Patrol, 4-Brig. July 3 Skirmish, Boiling Fork, near Winchester.. Union loss, 12 wounded.

July Reconnoissance from Cowan to Anderson.. IOWA-- 2d Cavalry. Union loss, 1 killed, 10 wounded, 3 missing. July 15 Skirmish near Jackson No Reports. July Scout from Memphis.. Cavalry Patrol, 4-Brig. Union loss, 1 killed, 2 missing. Union loss, 1 killed, 4 wounded. Total, 5. Occupation of Middle Tennessee. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Chickamauga, Ga. OHIO-- 2d , 7th and 9th 4 Cos.

Cavalry; Battery "D" 1st Light Arty. Cavalry; 1st and 2d Mounted Infantry. Union loss, 1 killed, 15 wounded. OHIO-- 9th Cavalry. Union loss, 12 killed, 20 wounded, missing. OHIO-- d Infantry. OHIO-- 2d , 7th and 9th Cavalry. Union loss, 5 killed, 22 wounded.

OHIO-- 2d and 7th Cavalry. OHIO-- 38th Infantry. Union loss, 6 killed, 20 wounded, 40 missing. Union loss, 2 killed, 6 wounded. Total, 8. OHIO-- 1st , 3d , 4th and 10th Cavalry. Union loss, 14 killed, wounded, 5 missing. Union loss, 38 killed, wounded and missing. Union loss, 70 killed, wounded and missing.

Union loss, 7 killed, 31 wounded, captured and missing. Union loss, 3 killed, 4 wounded, 6 missing. Union loss, 15 killed, 60 wounded. Union loss, 13 killed, wounded, 2 missing. Union loss, 1 killed, 10 wounded, 8 missing. Union loss, 14 killed, 42 wounded. Union loss, 6 wounded. Zollicoffer No Reports. Union loss, 7 killed, 25 wounded, captured and missing.

Battery "E" Light Arty. OHIO-- 1st , 6th , 9th , 11th , 17th , 18th , 31st , 33d , 36th , 41st , 89th , 92d , 93d and th infantry. Union loss, 4 killed, 17 wounded. Oct, 27 Skirmish near Pulaski No Reports.

Union loss, 2 killed, 5 wounded, 15 missing. OHIO-- 55th , 61st , 73d and 82d Infantry. Union loss, 78 killed, wounded, 15 missing. Union loss, 8 wounded. Union loss, 7 killed, 57 wounded.

Union loss 3 wounded.