Braxton Bragg’s Confederates reach Chattanooga, Edmund Kirby Smith’s Confederates prepare to move into Kentucky, and the Federal high command expresses dissatisfaction with Don Carlos Buell’s lack of action.
Tag: Eastern Tennessee
A Deep-Seated Spirit of Rebellion
Confederate officials hang two men as part of an effort to stop Unionists from sabotaging the Confederacy by burning bridges in eastern Tennessee.
A Set of Aristocrats and Overbearing Tyrants
Tennessee voters approve secession from the Union, but eastern Tennessee remains defiantly Unionist.
The Death of John Hunt Morgan
September 4, 1864 – A Federal private ended the life of one of the Confederacy’s most legendary raiders. Since escaping from Ohio State Penitentiary last