Summary of David A. Powell & Eric J. Wittenberg's Tullahoma

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#1 Rosecrans was promoted to lead the Army of the Ohio just nine weeks before the Battle of Stones River, and he replaced General Don Carlos Buell, who had fought the Battle of Perryville to an unsatisfying result. The Lincoln Administration decided Buell had to go.

#2 Rosecrans was an innovator, a modernizer, and a bit of a perfectionist. He saw plenty of problems he wanted to address, but he had little time to implement any real changes before initiating the offensive movement that would culminate in the large-scale battle outside Murfreesboro.

#3 Rosecrans was a graduate of the US Military Academy in 1842. He was a brilliant man, and his intelligence bordered on brilliance. He was born in Sunbury, Ohio, in 1819. His father, Crandall Rosecrans, was a recently returned veteran of the War of 1812 who served as an aide to General William Henry Harrison.

#4 Rosecrans was a zealous convert to Catholicism, an anomaly in 19th-century America. He had done well so far in the war, and was instrumental in winning the early successes in western Virginia that propelled fellow West Pointer George B. McClellan to such heights in Virginia in 1862.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822512245

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Insights on David A. Powell & Eric J. Wittenberg's Tullahoma

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Rosecrans was promoted to lead the Army of the Ohio just nine weeks before the Battle of Stones River, and he replaced General Don Carlos Buell, who had fought the Battle of Perryville to an unsatisfying result. The Lincoln Administration decided Buell had to go.

#2

Rosecrans was an innovator, a modernizer, and a bit of a perfectionist. He saw plenty of problems he wanted to address, but he had little time to implement any real changes before initiating the offensive movement that would culminate in the large-scale battle outside Murfreesboro.

#3

Rosecrans was a graduate of the US Military Academy in 1842. He was a brilliant man, and his intelligence bordered on brilliance. He was born in Sunbury, Ohio, in 1819. His father, Crandall Rosecrans, was a recently returned veteran of the War of 1812 who served as an aide to General William Henry Harrison.

#4

Rosecrans was a zealous convert to Catholicism, an anomaly in 19th-century America. He had done well so far in the war, and was instrumental in winning the early successes in western Virginia that propelled fellow West Pointer George B. McClellan to such heights in Virginia in 1862.

#5

Rosecrans’s arrival was met with general approval in the ranks. The men liked him because he was open and friendly compared to the taciturn exclusiveness of Buell. The fight at Stones River was widely hailed as a Northern victory, coming after the disaster at Fredericksburg.

#6

Rosecrans looked to new men to revitalize the army. He brought in Brigadier General Stanley, who had served under him at Corinth, to lead the Army of the Cumberland’s cavalry.

#7

After the Battle of Stones River, Rosecrans was left with many vacant positions, including divisional and brigade commands. He was able to shift George Thomas into active corps command, a much better use of Thomas’s talents.

#8

Rosecrans’s illness delayed the rate at which he was making demands on the war department, but he still got much of what he wanted in January. He promoted several deserving officers, expanded his staff, and requested more new recruits.

#9

On January 24, Rosecrans asked for another officer, Brig. Gen. William Wallace Burns, whom he knew from their shared service in Virginia. Burns was initially a supply officer on McClellan’s staff, and he was given a brigade command in John Sedgwick’s division of Edwin Sumner’s II Corps, Army of the Potomac.

#10

Rosecrans was also disappointed to hear that Burns had resigned, as he had hoped to promote him to major general. Burns was a victim of numbers, as there were many more eligible officers than slots for major generals of volunteers.

#11

The Army of the Cumberland relied on a river of supplies that flowed down the rails from Louisville to Nashville on the Louisville Nashville Railroad, and then another 30 miles to Murfreesboro via the Nashville Chattanooga Line. Rebel cavalry had repeatedly demonstrated the vulnerability of that lifeline in 1862.

#12

The Army of the Cumberland’s strategic situation was different from either the Army of the Potomac’s in Virginia or the Army of the Tennessee’s in Mississippi. In Virginia, supply lines were short. Only 100 overland miles separated Washington and Richmond, while the eastern seaboard presented the Union navy with unlimited access