Abraham Lincoln re-elected president
Historical Events for November 1864 Excerpts:
15th - Union Major General Sherman leaves Atlanta on the "March to the Sea"
29th - Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)
29th - Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye
Also called the Chivington Massacre ... "A dozen years later, as a change.org petition was pushing to rename the town of Chivington, once a bustling burg outside of Eads that today is a ghost town, members of the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration Commission were meeting just a few miles away at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. The Chivington name change concept came up, and the tribal representatives were unanimous in the belief that the name should stay. "It was helpful to hear the tribes talk about that," says Nancy Wadsworth, an associate professor in DU's Department of Political Science who pushed the university's report through."
This was the basis for the fictional massacre by Col Skimmerhorn in the TV series "Centennial".
30th - Battle of Franklin Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities
Battle of Franklin commemorated at 2014 Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature Event
Battle website "Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Confederate Color-Bearer Ensign John J. Cherry, 3rd Mis"
..."The 3rd Miss was part of Loring’s Division, Featherston’s Brigade. Jacobson says that Cherry was shot in the upper right arm and died of his wounds in January 1865."
Historical Events for November 1864 Excerpts:
15th - Union Major General Sherman leaves Atlanta on the "March to the Sea"29th - Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)
29th - Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye
Also called the Chivington Massacre ... "A dozen years later, as a change.org petition was pushing to rename the town of Chivington, once a bustling burg outside of Eads that today is a ghost town, members of the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration Commission were meeting just a few miles away at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. The Chivington name change concept came up, and the tribal representatives were unanimous in the belief that the name should stay. "It was helpful to hear the tribes talk about that," says Nancy Wadsworth, an associate professor in DU's Department of Political Science who pushed the university's report through."
This was the basis for the fictional massacre by Col Skimmerhorn in the TV series "Centennial".
30th - Battle of Franklin Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities
Battle of Franklin commemorated at 2014 Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature Event
Battle website "Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Confederate Color-Bearer Ensign John J. Cherry, 3rd Mis"
..."The 3rd Miss was part of Loring’s Division, Featherston’s Brigade. Jacobson says that Cherry was shot in the upper right arm and died of his wounds in January 1865."
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