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.