Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sparta, Tenn.” in chapter 12 of Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative:
... Ky., and on Sept. 2 had occupied Lexington.
Bragg, with about 30,000 men, from Chattanooga had moved northward up the Sequatchie Valley, and, crossing the Cumberland Mountains, was, on Sept. 5, at Sparta, Tenn. , turning the Federal position at Murfreesboro, where Buell was in command with about 50,000 men.
Such a movement by Lee would have been utilizing our Interior Lines, the one game in which the Con...
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† | Sparta, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) | 20 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 0 user votes |
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