Saturday, July 6, 2013

June 23, 1863---The Tullahoma Campaign: The Union retakes Middle Tennessee



JUNE 23, 1863:          

The Tullahoma Campaign (The Middle Tennessee Campaign) begins. 

A series of engagements fought between June 24 and July 3, 1863, involving the Union Army of the Cumberland and the Confederate Army of Tennessee, in which the Yankees outmaneuvered the Rebels from a strong defensive position, driving the Confederates from Middle Tennessee and threatening the area around Chattanooga. 

The Tullahoma Campaign is described by historians as a "brilliant" campaign that achieved very significant goals with very few casualties on either side. However, it was overshadowed by contemporaneous Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, and is forgotten. Too, it left the Army of Tennessee essentially intact, which led to the Union’s disastrous defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga in September.


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