The Federal army of the Cumberland begins…

June 1863 CE

The Federal army of the Cumberland begins its operations against General Braxton Bragg's Confederate Army of Tenneesee in what will become known as the Tullahoma campaign on June 23, and Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan decides it is time to move northward into Kentucky.

Morgan and his twenty-four hundred and sixty handpicked Confederate cavalrymen, along with four artillery pieces, had departed from Sparta, Tennessee, on June 11, 1863, intending to divert the attention of the Union Army of the Ohio from Southern forces in the stat eand possibly stir up pro-southern sentiments in the North.

Bragg, the regional Confederate commander, intends for Morgan's cavalrymen to provide a distraction by entering Kentucky.

Morgan, however, has confided to some of his officers that he has long desired to invade Indiana and Ohio to bring the terror of war to the North.

Bragg has given him carte blanche to ride throughout Tennessee and Kentucky, but has ordered him to under no circumstances cross the Ohio River.

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Sparta White Tennessee United States View →

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Braxton Bragg View → John Hunt Morgan View →

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Kentucky, Commonwealth of (U.S.A.) View → Tennessee, State of (U.S.A.) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Ohio, State of (U.S.A.) View → Indiana, State of (U.S.A.) View → Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) View →

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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence) View → Western Theater of the American Civil War View → Tullahoma Campaign View → Morgan's Raid View →

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