The Lincoln administration orders Ulysses S. Grant to Louisville, where he takes command of the new Military Division of the Mississippi, with the top priority being to break the besieged Federals out of Chattanooga.
Tag: William S. Rosecrans
A Duck Hit on the Head
The Federal Army of the Cumberland is reinforced, but it becomes clear that its commander, William S. Rosecrans, is not up to the task of breaking his troops out of Chattanooga.
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.
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.
The Great Federal Troop Transfer
A remarkable plan to save the Federal army under siege in Chattanooga is set in motion.