President Jefferson Davis holds meetings with the top officers in the Army of Tennessee to try resolving the deep dissension among them.
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Confederate Dissension at Chattanooga
Tensions reach a boiling point among the Confederate Army of Tennessee commanders. This leads to a command change, a call for Richmond to help, and even a death threat.
The Siege of Chattanooga Begins
William S. Rosecrans’s Federal Army of the Cumberland continues building defenses in Chattanooga while Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army of Tennessee begins laying siege.
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.
The Battle of Chickamauga: Day Two
The terrible battle in northwestern Georgia enters its second day and threatens to result in Federal disaster.
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.