re: #111 Decatur Deb

Admittedly, the Confederates won for a while, at Chickamauga. After that, not so much.

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Chickamauga did ruin the career of MG Rosecrans and in its aftermath the Confederate Army of Tennessee was able to cut the Army of the Cumberland off from supply. But it also brought Ulysses S. “Unconditional Surrender” Grant into the field against them, as well as MG William T. Sherman who was able to reopen a supply line to Chattanooga by attacking the Confederates from an expected direction.

Shortly thereafter, dissension at the top of the Confederate force led Gen. Braxton Bragg to detach LTG James “Old Pete” Longstreet and his corp for an attack on Knoxville that ultimately failed. Reduced in size and now outnumber by a three part Union force (the Union left wing was the XI and XII Corps detached from the Army of the Potomac, under MG Joseph “Fighting Joe” Hooker, The center the Army of the Cumberland under MG George “Slow Trot” Thomas, and the right the Army of the Tennessee under Sherman), the Confederates were forced to stand on the defensive during the Subsequent Battle of Chattanooga, only to have the resurgent Army of the Cumberland break the center of the Confederate lines with a all out attack on November 25th, 1863. Bragg was forced to withdraw into Georgia.