General Rosecrans retreats to Chattanooga, which Bragg…

1863 CE

General Rosecrans retreats to Chattanooga, which Bragg now besieges in the Chattanooga Campaign.

Grant marches to the relief of Rosecrans and defeats Bragg at the Third Battle of Chattanooga, eventually causing Longstreet to abandon his Knoxville Campaign and driving Confederate forces out of Tennessee and opening a route to Atlanta and the heart of the Confederacy.

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Braxton Bragg View → James Longstreet View → Ulysses S. Grant View → William Rosecrans View →

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Georgia, State 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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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 → Chattanooga Campaign View →

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