OCTOBER 26, 1863:
After traveling to Lookout Mountain to mediate, unsuccessfully,
among his squabbling Generals, Jefferson Davis begins a series of whistlestops
through Confederate-held areas. According
to the Atlanta-Knoxville Register,
Davis, feeling that East Tennessee is vital to the Confederacy, says he will
abandon Richmond if necessary in order to repossess East Tennessee. “The coming
shock of contending armies on the soil of Tennessee will be decisive of the
fate of the Confederation.”
After vindication by their Commander-in-Chief, Bragg’s
“besieging” army skirmishes at Philadelphia, and Jones Hill, Tennessee with
units of The Army of The Potomac. Bragg’s cavalry captures more than 400 Union prisoners,
in addition to their artillery, small arms, and other equipment.
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