Thursday, June 20, 2013

July 20, 1862---Confederates plan to return to Tennessee



JULY 20, 1862:          

 General Braxton Bragg, with the Confederate Army of Mississippi, has marched out of Tupelo, Mississippi and headed for northern Alabama, where he intends to organize his army for an invasion northward into Tennessee. The bitter Spring of Confederate defeats is blossoming into a summer of Confederate advances.


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