Federal forces move to open the “cracker line” to feed the starving troops in Chattanooga, while Confederates try to block them.
Tag: Braxton Bragg
Grant Sets Out for Chattanooga
Ulysses S. Grant leaves Louisville to take personal command of the Federals besieged in Chattanooga as the commander of the new Military Division of the Mississippi.
Confederate Strategy Changes at Chattanooga
President Jefferson Davis travels west to inspect Confederate forces in the Deep South. He also shares an idea with Braxton Bragg, commanding the Confederate Army of Tennessee, to send part of his force to Knoxville.
Demoralization in the Army of Tennessee
President Jefferson Davis holds meetings with the top officers in the Army of Tennessee to try resolving the deep dissension among them.
Inspire with Undivided Confidence
Troops from the Federal Army of the Potomac arrive at Bridgeport, Alabama, to reinforce the Federals trapped in Chattanooga, while dissension grows within the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
Wheeler’s Tennessee Raid
Joseph Wheeler’s Confederate cavalry force enters the Sequatchie Valley in Tennessee to raid the supply lines of William S. Rosecrans’s Federal Army of the Cumberland.