Only days after retreating back to East Tennessee from its Kentucky Campaign, the Army of Mississippi was on the move again on this date in 1862. Gen. Braxton Bragg, having departed for Richmond, left to Gen. Leonidas Polk the task of moving the army toward Nashville.
Heading south, from Chattanooga the army was transferred by rail to Bridgeport, Alabama. At Bridgeport, the men were ferried across the river to Tennessee, and then they marched to Tullahoma. Their destination was the Stone's River Valley, only 30 miles south of the Federal bastion at Nashville.
Bragg's army will join forces with Gen. Breckinridge's Division, which Bragg had sent ahead without authorization from Richmond, and encamp around Murfreesboro, with its target in sight: William S. Rosecrans's army at Nashville. The 2 opposing armies will face one another again after chasing and fighting each other all year.
Source: Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee 1862-1865, Thomas Lawrence Connely
Heading south, from Chattanooga the army was transferred by rail to Bridgeport, Alabama. At Bridgeport, the men were ferried across the river to Tennessee, and then they marched to Tullahoma. Their destination was the Stone's River Valley, only 30 miles south of the Federal bastion at Nashville.
Bragg's army will join forces with Gen. Breckinridge's Division, which Bragg had sent ahead without authorization from Richmond, and encamp around Murfreesboro, with its target in sight: William S. Rosecrans's army at Nashville. The 2 opposing armies will face one another again after chasing and fighting each other all year.
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| Red dotted line is Bragg's line of retreat to Murfreesboro Source: Source: Civil War Maps by Hal Jespersen |
Source: Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee 1862-1865, Thomas Lawrence Connely
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