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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Corinth , operations at (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cumberland Gap , actions at (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hardee , William Joseph 1815 -1873 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoover's Gap , battle at. (search)
Hoover's Gap, battle at.
The 14th Army Corps under General Thomas, the 20th Corps under General McCook, and the 21st Corps under General Crittenden, of the National Army of the Cumberland, attacked the Confederate Army of the Tennessee at Hoover's Gap, Tenn., June 24, 1863.
Thomas succeeded in driving the Confederates from Hoover's Gap, and McCook secured possession of Liberty Gap. General Bragg, not feeling strong enough to meet Rosecrans in battle, retreated across the Tennessee River to Chattanooga.
The campaign, in which this engagement was one of several, lasted from June 23 to July 7; resulted in putting the Army of the Cumberland in control of the country from Murfreesboro to Bridgeport; and is known officially as the Tullahoma campaign.
See Bragg, Braxton; Rosecrans, William Starke.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iuka Springs , battle near (search)
Jordan, Thomas 1819-
Military officer; born in Luray, Va., Sept. 30, 1819; graduated at West Point in 1840; took part in the Seminole War, and in the war with Mexico; he entered the Confederate army in 1861 as lieutenant-colonel, but was made adjutant-general; served on the staff of General Beauregard, and on that of General Bragg.
In 1869 he joined the Cuban insurgents, but resigned the next year and returned to the United States.
Siege of Knoxville,
General Burnside, with the Army of the Ohio, occupied Knoxville, Sept. 3, 1863.
The Confederate General Buckner, upon his advance, evacuated east Tennessee and joined Bragg at Chattanooga.
Early in November, General Longstreet, with 16,000 men, advanced against Knoxville.
On the 14th he crossed the Tennessee.
Burnside repulsed him on the 16th at Campbell's Station, gaining time to concentrate his army in Knoxville.
Longstreet advanced, laid siege to the town, and arepulsed him on the 16th at Campbell's Station, gaining time to concentrate his army in Knoxville.
Longstreet advanced, laid siege to the town, and assaulted it twice (Nov. 18 and 29), but was repulsed.
Meantime Grant had defeated Bragg at Chattanooga, and Sherman, with 25,000 men, was on the way to relieve Knoxville.
Longstreet, compelled to raise the siege, retired up the Holston River, but did not entirely abandon east Tennessee until the next spring, when he again joined Lee in Virginia.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McMinnsville, battle near (search)
McMinnsville, battle near
In the summer of 1862, Generals Bragg and Buell marched in nearly parallel lines eastward towards Chattanooga—the latter north of the Tennessee River, and the former south of it. Bragg won the race, and with fully 40,000 men turned his face towards the Ohio.
Bragg divided his force into three corps, commanded respectively by Generals Hardee, Polk, and E. Kirby SmiBragg divided his force into three corps, commanded respectively by Generals Hardee, Polk, and E. Kirby Smith.
The latter was sent to Knoxville, Tenn., while the two former held Chattanooga and its vicinity.
Buell disposed his line from Huntsville, Ala., to McMinnsville, Warren co., Tenn. So lay the opposing armies when Kirby Smith left Knoxville to invade Kentucky.
Bragg crossed the Tennessee, just above Chattanooga, on Aug. 21, with thirty-six regiments of infantry, five of cavalry, and forty gu . T. J. Wood's division, who had made a rapid march.
After a short struggle the Confederates were routed.
Supposing Bragg was aiming at Nashville, Buell took immediate measures to defend that cit