Record #:

9925

Author(s):

Jones, Ora L.

Abstract:

In an effort to save Confederate forces under the command Gen. Braxton Bragg from defeat, Gen. James Longstreet moved 15,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia, plus their artillery, ammunition, wagons, horses and mules from their home bases in Virginia to Chattanooga, Tennessee, a distance of more than 900 miles, in just nine days. Only a few weeks later, Federal forces under the command of Major General Joseph Hooker broke this record by moving more than 20,000 troops and their supplies 1,157 miles in five days on orders to relieve Gen. William Rosecrans who was under siege in Chattanooga at the hands of the recently reinforced Confederates. Both moves took place in September, 1863.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 8, Sept 1972, p12-13, 31, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865