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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The defense of Vicksburg . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.69 (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 7.83 (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The battle of Stone's River . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Morgan 's Ohio raid. (search)
Morgan's Ohio raid.
In the summer of 1863, the Confederate army at Tullahoma having been weakened by detachments for the defense of Vicksburg, Bragg found himself exposed to the risk of an attack by Rosecrans from Murfreesboro' simultaneously with a movement by Burnside from the Ohio to drive Buckner out of Knoxville.
Bragg therefore determined to fall back to Chattanooga.
To cover the retreat he ordered Brigadier-General John H. Morgan with a picked force from his division of mounted infantry
Brig.-Gen. B. W. Duke commanded the First Brigade, and Colonel Adam R. Johnson the Second.--editors. to ride into Kentucky, breaking up the railroad, attacking Rosecrans's detachments, and threatening Louisville.
To gain more time, Morgan wanted to extend the raid by a wide sweep beyond the Ohio, but Bragg would not consent.
Morgan set out from Burkesville, on the 2d of July, with 2460 men and 4 guns, ostensibly to execute Bragg's orders, but really bent on carrying out his own pla
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Manoeuvring Bragg out of Tennessee . (search)
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Cavalry operations in the West under Rosecrans and Sherman . (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 20 : events West of the Mississippi and in Middle Tennessee . (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 4 : campaign of the Army of the Cumberland from Murfreesboro'to Chattanooga . (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 6 : siege of Knoxville .--operations on the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia . (search)