Robert E. Lee begins planning to attack after receiving confirmation that George G. Meade’s Federal Army of the Potomac has been weakened.
Tag: Army of Northern Virginia
Preparing to Threaten Lee
George G. Meade plans to advance against Robert E. Lee’s weakened Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, but only as part of a probing action.
Bragg Looks to Attack in Northern Georgia
Confederate reinforcements head out from Virginia to reinforce Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee, while Bragg devises a plan to trap an isolated segment of the Federal Army of the Cumberland south of Chattanooga.
The Richmond Strategy Conference
As William S. Rosecrans’s Federals close in on Chattanooga, participants at the high-level conference in Richmond decide to maintain the status quo in Virginia while reinforcing Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army of Tennessee.
Westward Ho
With Federal forces closing in on Chattanooga, it is decided that a detachment of the Army of Northern Virginia be sent west to reinforce the Confederate defenders at this key railroad town.
Northern Virginia and the Confederate Strategy Conference
Robert E. Lee attends a conference with President Jefferson Davis at Richmond to discuss upcoming Confederate strategy in Virginia and elsewhere, while Lee’s top lieutenant has ideas of his own.