Skirmish at Snow Hill
Note-Not every meeting was big but men still suffered in the small engagements as wll.
Source with 2 pictures: http://thismightyscourge.com/2010/04/02 ... snow-hill/
In 1863 147 years ago today the soldiers fighting in the Civil War were engaged in spring campaigning. Near Snow Hill, Tennessee flowering dogwoods were blooming and the native grasses were becoming a luxuriant green. A new color was soon to be introduced – RED. With US Major General William S. Rosecrans’ Army of the Cumberland well entrenched at Murfreesboro skirmishes were common in the vicinity. Over the past several weeks CSA Colonel Basil W. Duke’s 1st Cavalry Brigade, of Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan’s Cavalry Division, had been on the move constantly. They patrolled south of Murfreesboro scouting for any Federal movements. On the Federal side US Colonel Eli Long’s Second Cavalry Brigade of Brigadier General John B. Turchin’s Second Cavalry Division were active. The 3d Ohio Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Seidel, and the 4th Ohio Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver P. Robie were scouting in the area of Snow Hill on April 2. They would clash with CSA Colonel D. Howard Smith’s 5th Kentucky (CSA) Cavalry regiment. With the Federal forces having a significant numerical superiorty, they would be victorious at Snow Hill suffering nine casualties (1 killed), while Smith lost 50 killed and wounded. The cavalry skirmishes would continue for the next several weeks leading up to the Tullahoma Campaign.
Here is a web page for the Tullahoma Campaign:
http://www.aotc.net/Tullahoma.htm
It starts this way:
The Tullahoma campaign 23 June - 3 July 1863
A military masterpiece which did more damage to the Confederate cause than did Vicksburg or Gettysburg, and at very little human cost. . . . .
This campaign did not and still does not receive much attention and has little attraction for those who thrill to high body counts. All the more reason for discerning students of history to give this masterpiece of planning and execution its due consideration. If you want to get a feel for how much fun it is to be the object of "soft war," read the reports of Bragg, Polk, and Cleburne.
I didn't find any thing in the Chickamauga or Franklin campaign games. Shame it is not included in one of the series. It would be a good project for a scenario writer.
Lt. Col Elkin
Chief Engineer AoT