. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ACKE OF THE MORRISITES. IVas hoped that this movement would compelthe Federal army to abandon its advance,and fall back into Kentucky to protect thatState and Ohio from rhe Confederates. Then,by a decisive victory, Bragg expected to beable to overrun and hold Kentucky andeven to invade Ohio. The division of General .Smith moved for-ward about the middle of August, and on thethirtieth of August defeated a Union forceunder General Manson at Richmond, Ken-tucky
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ACKE OF THE MORRISITES. IVas hoped that this movement would compelthe Federal army to abandon its advance,and fall back into Kentucky to protect thatState and Ohio from rhe Confederates. Then,by a decisive victory, Bragg expected to beable to overrun and hold Kentucky andeven to invade Ohio. The division of General .Smith moved for-ward about the middle of August, and on thethirtieth of August defeated a Union forceunder General Manson at Richmond, Ken-tucky, inflicting upon it a loss of 6,000 men. vance seize Louisville before Buells the seventeenth of September he was atMunfordsville, Kentucky, which he capturedafter several slight encounters, taking forty-five hundred prisoners. Buell in the mean-time had divined Braggs purpose, and hadset out from Nashville for the Ohio by forcedmarches. He reached Louisville before thearrival of the Confederates, and being heavilyreinforced advanced to attack Bragg, whohad turned aside and occupied Frankfort onthe fourth of October. 4^.
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