Word: bragg
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...Union and of the Confederacy were opposing each other in three parts of the South, in Virginia, on the Mississippi, and in Tennessee. It is with the operations in this latter place that the subject treated. Rosecrans commanded the Union army of the Cumberland. Opposed to him was General Bragg, with 50,000 Confederates. The object towards which the army under Rosecrans was moving was Chattanooga. This city, a natural fortress, was situated at the base of the mountains in East Tennessee. Here converged all the railway lines which made the easy movements of troops from one part...