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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Review of Bragg's last campaign, (search)
nd with it the career of Gen. Bragg as chief commander of the Army of Tennessee. The occasion presents a fit opportunity to pass in review the military operations in this quarter, commencing with the evacuation of Chattanooga on the 7th and 8th of September, and closing with the retreat of the Confederate army upon Dalton on the 27th ult. This task I now propose to undertake, not in the interest of any leader or faction, but in the interest of history, and to the end that truth may be establishuched from the mountains into the open country. Gen. Wheeler was accordingly ordered to watch carefully the mountain passes, and General Forrest to cover the front of our advance. The army moved on the evening of the 7th and morning of the 8th of September, in two columns, Gens. Polk and Hill on the direct road to Lafayette, and Gens. Walker and Buckner on the Peavine Church road. On the night of the 8th Polk and Hill bivouacked on the banks of the Chickamauga, near Lee & Gordon's mills, wher