Thursday, November 21, 2013

November 22, 1863---A Perfect Storm in Tennessee



NOVEMBER 22, 1863:       

Confederate Military Intelligence suffers one of its greatest failures. General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A., investing the Siege of Chattanooga, detaches the forces of General Simon Bolivar Buckner C.S.A., and sends them north to aid General James Longstreet C.S.A. in the Siege of Knoxville. 
 

Bragg, already weakened by Longstreet’s earlier departure, is left with only a skeleton force at Chattanooga. What Bragg does not know is that he is about to be attacked by General William Tecumseh Sherman U.S.A., and that Longstreet will have to retreat from Knoxville to aid him, with General Ambrose Burnside, U.S.A. coming out of Knoxville in pursuit of Longstreet. In the meantime, both Bragg and Longstreet will face attack from numerically superior Union forces, while Buckner’s forces will be neutralized in transit, facing enemies both ahead and behind along what is today the I-75 corridor.
 

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