General Braxton Bragg is able to reach…

August 1862 CE

General Braxton Bragg is able to reach Chattanooga before Buell can, even though he had not left Tupelo until July 21.

Bragg's general plan is to invade Kentucky in a joint operation with Major General Edmund Kirby Smith, cut Buell's lines of communications, defeat him, then turn back to defeat Grant.

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Chattanooga Hamilton Tennessee United States View →

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Braxton Bragg View → Don Carlos Buell View → Edmund Kirby Smith View → Henry Halleck View → Ulysses S. Grant 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 → Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) View →

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Party System, Third (United States) View → 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 →

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Conflict View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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