. History of the American Civil War . the Northmight be invaded, and peace wrung from it in one of itsgreat cities. Lees movement to the North we shall have to considerin a subsequent chapter. In this we have to sj)eak ofBraggs. Bragg was at Chattanooga. In his march to it fromTupelo he had outstripped the tardy Buell, who, as wehave seen (p. 311), had been dispatched by Halleck onthe 10th of June. It was clear that very great incidental advantageswould arise from the march of Braggs armyBra^lgs^Sorthward northward from Chattanooga along the westflank of the Cumberland Mountains, for notonly m
. History of the American Civil War . the Northmight be invaded, and peace wrung from it in one of itsgreat cities. Lees movement to the North we shall have to considerin a subsequent chapter. In this we have to sj)eak ofBraggs. Bragg was at Chattanooga. In his march to it fromTupelo he had outstripped the tardy Buell, who, as wehave seen (p. 311), had been dispatched by Halleck onthe 10th of June. It was clear that very great incidental advantageswould arise from the march of Braggs armyBra^lgs^Sorthward northward from Chattanooga along the westflank of the Cumberland Mountains, for notonly might he recover the two states Tennessee and Ken-tuclvy, and threaten Louisville and Cincinnati, but hemight compel the detachment of a large part of the forcefrom the army of Grant near Corinth. The projectedmarch of that general southward toward New Orleansmight be half paralyzed by the march of Bragg north-ward to Louisville. The event more than justified these 352 OSTENSIBLE MOTIVE FOR BRAGGS SORTIE. [Sect. X. iCINCIISNATI 0 H I. %D ALTON THE SORTIE OF BRAGG. expectations, for Buell himself was at once tLrown fromthe confines of iVlabama to the Ohio River, a distance ofthree hundred miles. The Confederate authorities had considered it expe-An ostensible mo- tlicut to havc au ostcusiblc as well as a realmotive for the Northern campaign in which live assigned. ] the confederates march northward. 353 Bragg was about to engage. While their real objectswere siicli as have been just described, they gave out thatthey w^ere undertaking a foray into Kentucky. It wasaffirmed that in that state there were more provisionsand live-stock than in all the rest of the South. Brao^a;might fail in destroying the national forces, in drivingthem north of the Ohio, in capturing Louisville and Cin-cinnati, in detaching the Northwest from the Union, inarresting Grants march to the South, but it was hardlypossible for him to fail in securing a vast supply of pro-visions ; and it was suppos
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