. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ceeded byGeneral Braxton Bragg: Bragg was strongly 096 THE CIVIL WAR, reinforced, and it was determined to make abold effort to drive back the Federal advanceand regain West Tennessee and, if possible,Kentucky. Braggs army was concentratedat Chattanooga, and Geneneral Kirby Smithat Knoxville was strongly reinforced. Smithwas to move from Knoxville, while Braggwas to advance from Chattanooga, and thetwo armies were to unite in the centre of theState oi Kentuc
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... ceeded byGeneral Braxton Bragg: Bragg was strongly 096 THE CIVIL WAR, reinforced, and it was determined to make abold effort to drive back the Federal advanceand regain West Tennessee and, if possible,Kentucky. Braggs army was concentratedat Chattanooga, and Geneneral Kirby Smithat Knoxville was strongly reinforced. Smithwas to move from Knoxville, while Braggwas to advance from Chattanooga, and thetwo armies were to unite in the centre of theState oi Kentucky. Their combined forcesamounted to over fifty thousand men, and it Smith then occupied Lexington and Frank-fort, and advanced towards Cincinnati ; butascertaining that a strong force was assem-bling at that city, under General Lewis Wal-lace, he fell back to Frankfort, where he joinedGeneral Bragg on the fourth of October, Bragg had begun his march as soon asKirby Smith had gotten fairly started. Hisobjective point was Louisville, and he hopedto be able to elude the army of General Buell,which was at Nashville, and by a rapid ad-. MASSACKE 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
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