George G. Meade attends a meeting at Washington to discuss what, if anything, could be done to confront Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
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The Northern Virginia Campaign Ends
George G. Meade’s Federal Army of the Potomac continues its withdrawal, preventing Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from turning its right flank and rear.
Chattanooga: Federal Reinforcements Move West
Federal troops from the Army of the Potomac begin heading west in a remarkable display of logistics, while the Federal high command looks to possibly change the command structure in the Army of the Cumberland.
Steadily Moving the Contrary Way
President Abraham Lincoln writes an irate message to Ambrose E. Burnside after Burnside’s repeated inability to reinforce William S. Rosecrans’s Federal army under siege in Chattanooga.
Bragg Decides Upon a Siege
The Federal Army of the Cumberland completes its retreat into Chattanooga after its disastrous defeat at Chickamauga, and the Confederate Army of Tennessee cautiously pursues.
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.