Examples of Braxton Bragg in the following topics:
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- Rosecrans, executed a series of maneuvers that forced Confederate General Braxton Bragg and his Army of Tennessee to abandon Chattanooga and withdraw into northern Georgia.
- Bragg's army besieged the city, threatening to starve the Union forces into surrender.
- Sherman's attack on Bragg's right flank made little progress.
- Braxton Bragg (right), commanding generals of the Chattanooga Campaign
- Explain the importance of Chattanooga, and the sequence of events between Generals Bragg and Rosecrans
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- Braxton Bragg took command of 56,000 troops of the Army of Tennessee.
- Bragg's general plan was to invade Kentucky, cut Union lines of communications, and then turn back to defeat Grant.
- However, after some small successes, Bragg realized that he was outnumbered and retreated through the Cumberland Gap, returning to Murfreesboro by way of Chattanooga.
- Bragg was relieved of duty and replaced by General Joseph E.
- Identify the battles fought by Generals Johnston, Bragg, Hood, Sherman, Rosecrans, and Grant in the Western Theater of the Civil War.
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- General Braxton Bragg defeated Union troops, who retreated to Chattanooga, which Bragg then besieged.
- Grant marched to the relief of troops in Chattanooga and defeated Bragg at the Third Battle of Chattanooga, driving Confederate forces out of Tennessee and opening a route to Atlanta and the heart of the Confederacy.