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	Tullahoma, Tennessee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tullahoma is a city in Coffee County and Franklin County, Tennessee, in the south-central part of the state.
		Tullahoma was founded in 1852 as a work camp along the new Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.
		The campaign of that year, which ultimately delivered control of Middle Tennessee to the Union and opened the door to Atlanta, is known as the Tullahoma Campaign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tullahoma,_Tennessee (912 words)

	Tullahoma Campaign
		At the start of the campaign Ulysses S. Grant had John Pemberton under siege in Vicksburg and Robert E. Lee was advancing into Pennsylvania.
		The strategic objective of the campaign, Chattanooga, ranked second of three on Lincoln's list of important Confederate targets - the other two were Richmond, Virginia, and the Mississippi River.
		Beauregard was advocating reinforcing Bragg's Army of Tennessee with Joe Johnston's men and some from the Army of Northern Virginia, then letting Bragg advance on Nashville and perhaps Louisville, cutting Grant's force off from the important rail line to the North and destroying his ability for instant communication to Washington.
	blueandgraytrail.com /event/Tullahoma_Campaign (899 words)

	Tullahoma
		The Tullahoma campaign was begun on the 23
		BY GILBERT C. The brief campaign which resulted in forcing the Confederate army to evacuate their works at Tullahoma and Shelbyville, Tenn., and retire behind the Tennessee River, began on the 23d of June, was prosecuted in the midst of drenching rains, and terminated July 4th, 1863.
		Murfreesboro' was Rosecrans's secondary base of supplies, while Tullahoma was Bragg's barrier against Rosecrans's farther advance toward Chattanooga, the strategic importance of which, as controlling Confederate railroad communication between the East and West, had rendered it the objective point of all the campaigns of the armies of the Ohio and the Cumberland.
	www.aotc.net /Tullahoma.htm (4947 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: COFFEE COUNTY
		Railroad officials created the town of Tullahoma as the mid-point of the railroad's line and established extensive works there, including a spur line from Tullahoma to Manchester to McMinnville, which eventually continued to coal mines and timber holdings in White County.
		Tullahoma became a railroad division headquarters in 1920.
		County leaders and civic officials in Tullahoma used the existing transportation network and the offer of free railroad land to convince government officials to locate a military base within the county.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=C120 (954 words)

	6/15/2003 - Tullahoma Campaign Subject Of Civil War Round Table Meeting - Memories - Chattanoogan.com
		It is the Tullahoma or Middle Tennessee Campaign of 1863, a campaign that began to unfold in the last days of June 140 years ago signaling the initiation of the REAL Campaign for Chattanooga.
		Tullahoma is one of the most overlooked campaigns, or more accurately phases of a larger campaign, in the war.
		But, the events of the Tullahoma Campaign in the last days of June and the first days of July, 1863, greatly shaped the events that follow later and include the Battle of Chickamauga and the eventual Union control of the "Gateway to the Deep South," Chattanooga.
	www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_37680.asp (510 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: TULLAHOMA CAMPAIGN
		The successful Union campaign in Middle Tennessee in the summer of 1863 was a turning point in the Civil War.
		The campaign secured an agriculturally productive region for the Union, set the stage for the major battles around Chattanooga that fall, and led to the crucial struggle for Atlanta the following year.
		The campaign was part of two years of conflict along the railroad extending from Nashville through Chattanooga to Atlanta.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=T118 (475 words)

	City of Tullahoma, TN - Welcome
		Tullahoma residents enjoy the uniqueness of a high-tech environment coupled with friendly small-town character and a culturally rich heritage.
		Tullahoma is especially attractive if you value progressive city government, a quality school system, access to quality healthcare, and safe, peaceful neighborhoods.
		Tullahoma is a member of Tennessee Backroads Heritage, a designated Tree City USA and a recipient of the State Governor's Three-Star City Award.
	www.tullahoma-tn.com /welcome.html (504 words)

	City of Tullahoma, TN - Fire Department
		The Tullahoma Firefighters are yearly sponsors of the Toys for Tots Campaign, making Christmas brighter for Tullahoma area children for over forty years.
		The Tullahoma Fire Department relies upon state-of-the-art equipment combined with 32 career personnel and 15 reserve personnel to protect the lives and property of Tullahoma residents.
		All Tullahoma citizens are encouraged to take an active role in the prevention of unwanted fires and the abatement of unsafe fire conditions.
	www.tullahoma-tn.com /departments/fire.html (841 words)

	Tullahoma Campaign
		On the 21st of June Colonel Sirwell assumed command of the third brigade, second division of the 14th Army Corps and the command of the 78th Pennsylvania devolved on Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Blakeley.
		On the 24th we marched fifteen miles in the direction of Tullahoma, and bivouacked for the night.
		At the close of the campaign our Army advanced to the northern base of the Cumberland Mountains and there halted to make further preparations for the campaign south of the Tennessee River.
	members.tripod.com /~ProlificPains/tullahoma.htm (1767 words)

	Tullahoma reports
		Tullahoma, a large intrenched camp, situated on the "Barrens," at the intersection of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad with the McMinnville branch, was their main depot.
		Meeting with no opposition, he entered Tullahoma at 12 m., capturing a few prisoners; General Brannan, commanding Third Division, reporting that the last of the rebel infantry retired during the night, and their cavalry commenced evacuating at daylight.
		Polk's brigade was at Tullahoma, 15 miles south of Wartrace, and Liddell's brigade was at Bellbuckle, a village 5 miles north of Wartrace.
	www.aotc.net /tullah-rep.htm (12467 words)

	Tullahoma Campaign: Battles of Liberty Gap and Hoover's Gap
		Tullahoma Campaign: Battles of Liberty Gap and Hoover's Gap
		The Tullahoma Campaign commenced immediately after The Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro) January 2, 1863 and continued until the commencement of the Battle of Chicamauga, September 10, 1863.
		The Confederate forces were scattered in Shelbyville and Wartrace with the C. headquarters in Tullahoma.
	www.tullahomacampaign.com (502 words)

	Battle of Hoover's Gap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Hoover's Gap was the principal battle fought in the Tullahoma Campaign (also known as the Middle Tennessee Campaign) of the American Civil War.
		Hoover's Gap was an unambiguous Union battlefield victory and the Tullahoma Campaign a strategic advance.
		Bragg withdrew to the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and maneuvering continued in the Chickamauga Campaign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tullahoma_Campaign (406 words)

	Amazon.com: Tullahoma: The 1863 Campaign for the Control of Middle Tennessee: Books: Michael R. Bradley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The results of the Tullahoma campaign were strategically more important than Gettysburg and tactically on a par with Vicksburg.
		The Tullahoma campaign of 1863 is often overlooked, overshadowed by the simultaneous events at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
		However, the strategic results of the campaign were enormous: the Confederacy lost the human, agricultural, and industrial capacity of middle Tennessee; Chattanooga came under fire; and the Union Army of the Cumberland took a large step forward in the campaign to divide the Confederacy.
	www.amazon.com /Tullahoma-Campaign-Control-Middle-Tennessee/dp/1572491671 (954 words)

	History - Indiana Infantry (Part 3)
		Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22.
		Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August.
		Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865.
	www.civilwararchive.com /Unreghst/unininf3.htm (4296 words)

	Army Of Tennessee
		This army fought the battle of Stone's River, went through the Tullahoma campaign, and fought the battle of Chickamauga, assisted by Longstreet's Corps from the Army of Northern Virginia.
		He led his division at Stone's River, through the Tullahoma campaign, and at Chickamauga, and after that battle was head of Cheatham's Corps, an organization formed upon the departure of Polk from the army, and of which Hardee shortly afterward took command.
		In the Atlanta campaign he led a division in Hardee's Corps, and assumed command of the corps, which later was known as Cheatham's Corps, after the departure of Hardee for Savannah in October, 1864, with which he continued until the surrender at Durham Station.
	www.civilwarhome.com /confederatearmytennessee.htm (3087 words)

	Tullahoma Campaign - Prelude to War
		The Tullahoma Campaign is often overlooked by historians because of the more politically significant engagements at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in the summer of 1863.
		In part, this conflict took the form of the Confederate independence movement, and the formal war between the Union and the Confederate states.
		The Tullahoma Campaign was a critical part of that war.
	mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11758 /intro_main.html (309 words)

	The Tullahoma Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The 1863 Tullahoma Campaign has had very little coverage in books.
		It chronicles the Tullahoma Campaign of 1863 in which Rosecrans brilliantly and almost bloodlessly forced Bragg to relinquish control of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
		This campaign led directly to the fierce fight along the banks of Chickamauga Creek.
	www.brettschulte.net /ACWBooks/tullahoma1863.htm (172 words)

	eHistory at OSU \| eReviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The campaigns and battles for control of Tennessee make a fascinating study for the Civil War enthusiast and Steven Woodword has a well written book that examines this time.
		His Six Armies In Tennessee is a fascinating and concise examination of the war for Tennessee from the start of Rosecrans' Tullahoma Campaign to Grant's rout of Bragg at Missionary Ridge.
		The action and the strategy from this relatively bloodless campaign to the bloody grounds of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge are covered well by the author.
	ehistory.osu.edu /osu/reviews/ereviewview.cfm?id=8 (546 words)

	Railroad Generalship: Foundations of Civil War Strategy
		On a few memorable occasions, the interdiction of rail lines proved to be the deciding factor in a campaign.
		The campaign began with the Union Army of the Potomac situated near its railhead at Aquia Creek.
		Sherman's campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta in the spring and summer of that year is perhaps the best example of a rail line being rebuilt as part of an army's advance, and then maintained despite repeated disruption by enemy raiders (see map 11).
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/gabel4/gabel4.asp (5415 words)

	Topographical Engineers -- Engineers in the Union Army 4
		In his report of the Atlanta campaign, Captain Poe wrote: "On the march, the engineer department was constantly engaged in the most arduous duties, repairing roads, building bridges, destroying railroads, and all other matters coming within our province.
		With the 97th it served in the Mobile, Alabama, Campaign, the two regiments being stationed at Starke's Landing, Alabama, until the surrender of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely in Mobile Bay.
		At this base they constructed six wharves from 300 to 500 feet in length, repaired one for the use of the sick and wounded, moved all supplies inland, and kept roads in repair, The 98th served at Brashear City, Louisiana, and the 99th at Plaquemine and Morganza, Louisiana, and Tortuga, Florida.
	www.topogs.org /Engineers-4.htm (2721 words)

	Chickamauga
		It is here that we see flanking activities employed on a grand scale for the first time in the war; deception employed by both sides to confuse the enemy; opportunities for success passed by; complex maneuvering to avoid destruction, and extreme frustration impsoed upon a commanding general by his subordinate commanders.
		The third campaign, Murfreesboro to Chattanooga, was a continuation of the Union army's drive for possession of strategically important Chattanooga.
		The proportion of the forces of the opposing armies during the Tullahoma campaign was far nearer equal than that on (sic) to Atlanta, while the natural and military obstacles to be overcome were largely the greater in the Tullahoma campaign.
	members.aol.com /dmsmith001/chick_stone.html (9594 words)

	Middle Tennessee Civil War Tours 3-6-06
		Drive the scenic middle Tennessee country side stopping at key points of the engagement and listen to the tales of valor both north and south as Dr. Bradley takes you back to those desperate days in June of 1863 as only he can.
		With a little imagination you'll be right there with them as Union General Willich loses another mounted courier to Confederate sharpshooters or as the 2nd Arkansas Regiments flag bearer is killed and rolls down Beechboard Hill (shown in photo) into the union lines where there Regimental flag is captured.
		This campaign gave rise to such legends as General Patrick Cleburne's Whitworth Sharpshooters whose skill at long distance shooting was unmatched until the Vietnam war, and Wilder's Lightning Brigade, the first brigade to use the Spencer repeating rifles in a major campaign.
	www.blockaderunner.com /other/tours.html (393 words)

	Military History Online - Custer and the Battle of Waynesboro
		As for Sheridan's Army, their strategic objective in the Shenandoah having been achieved after Cedar Creek, the issue was now what its role was to be as the spring campaigning season began.
		At any rate, when on 27 February 1865 Sheridan's Army of the Shenandoah left its winter encampment and marched south, its orders were to proceed to Lynchburg, destroy the railroads and canals in the vicinity, and be in position to continue the move further south.
		For the Spring campaign Custer's command had been reinforced from two to three brigades.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /civilwar/waynesboro/default.aspx (3199 words)

	Civil War Indiana - Regimental Histories - 6th-99th Infantry
		Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River May 4-June 15.
		Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 17-September 22.
		Campaign against Mobile and its defences March 17-April 12.
	civilwarindiana.com /reg_history_inf0.html (13922 words)

	Stones River and the Tullahoma Campaign
		In Tennessee, on December 26, Union General William Starke Rosecran's Army of the Cumberland left their base at Nashville to confront Confederate General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee near the little town of Murfreesboro.
		The ultimate goal of this Federal campaign was to drive the Rebel army out of Tennessee, and, in the process, capture Chattanooga, a key strategic position where the railroad lines of the eastern and western sections of the Confederacy converged.
		Bragg settled into winter quarters at Tullahoma, with his wings guarding the passes through the mountains.
	journals.aol.com /fdtate714/sottovoce/entries/2005/03/01/stones-river-and-the-tullahoma-campaign/1176 (2176 words)

	The Civil War, Page Five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Campaign of Vicksburg was of utmost importance to the cause of the Union.
		One reason for the success of Grant’s campaign was that Confederate troops that might have been sent from Tennessee to relieve Pemberton were held there by the Army of the Cumberland.
		However, the bloody Overland Campaign in Virginia during May and June, which featured clashes at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, depressed Northern morale, as did the failure of General Sherman to capture Atlanta.
	www.history-world.org /civil4.htm (4393 words)

	James River Publications - Ohio Regiments - mosocco.com/jreb/civilwar.htm
		This unit participated in the engagements in the Grafton Campaign, Nashville, Shiloh, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Knoxville, and the Atlanta Campaign.
		Ohio Volunteers and its Campaigns, 1861-1865, " by Captain Alexis Cope, the Fifteenth's Regimental and Brigade Adjutant.
		Tullahoma, Tenn., Defences of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1864.
	www.mosocco.com /ohio.html (13250 words)

	Arkansas Confederate Infantry Regiments
		The regiment was engaged in the battles of Greenbrier and Allegheny.
		Engaged in the Carolinas Campaign in early 1865, and at the last battles of the Army of Tennessee at Avarasboro and Bentonville on March 19-21, 1865.
		The Brigade rejoined the Army of Tennessee near Tullahoma, TN in September, 1863, where it fought at the battle of Chickamauga on September 19-20, 1863, and in the siege of Chattanooga in October and November, 1863.
	asms.k12.ar.us /armem/welch/ar_infy.htm (18661 words)

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