Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Georgia Coast Blockade

Chickamauga and Chattanooga were close to the end of the war. Chickamauga was another win for the union. The confederacy had 20,000 casualties and the union had 16,000 casualties. The confederate army was wearing down slowly but surely making it an easier win for the union. Chattanooga was when the union army was trapped in the city until General Grant was able to open a railroad to get supplies. This new railroad line helped the union armies to be able to continue south into Georgia. Chattanooga was now the supply hub for union supplies. The Savannah Coast blockade was going since the beginning of the war. This was where Georgia’s coast was tightly blocked. General Lee decided not to put up a fight because he knew he would be wasting soldiers there. Massachusetts 54th Regiment raided and destroyed the town of Darien in 1863 before a suicidal raid at Fort Wagner in South Carolina where about half of the regiment was killed, injured, or captured.