"How a Temper Tantrum Cost Gen. Rosecrans the...." Topic

… Battle of Chickamauga in the Civil War.

"September of 1863 Major General William S. Rosecrans was on a roll. He and his Union Army of the Cumberland had carried out a successful campaign in Tennessee against Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg in December of the previous year. After fighting a major battle at Murfreesboro (the Battle of Stones River) and maneuvering adroitly to force the Confederates out of Tullahoma and then Chattanooga, Rosecrans had driven Bragg's army completely out of Tennessee and into northern Georgia.

But now Bragg was through retreating. He had received enough reinforcements, including troops from Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. James Longstreet, to have numerical superiority over Rosecrans. He intended to make aggressive use of that advantage…"
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The article has one glaring error. Rosecrans was not replaced by Thomas, but Grant. Thomas was later in command of the Union forces at Nashville, over a year after these events.

It is not an error. Grant was given command of the Department of the Mississippi. Thomas directly replaced Rosecrans as the commander of the Army of the Cumberland.

Sorry, that should be Military Division of the Mississippi.

There is a lot wrong with this article. The author needs to read some new scholarship on the incident and not just the 30 year old Cozzens. It also completely leaves out the presence of corps commander McCook, him accepting responsibility for the move, and his promise to fill the gap Wood's departure would create. Plus, there is no record of such animosity between Wood and Rosecrans until years after the war. I would recommend reading David Powell's Chickamauga trilogy for a more modern, researched interpretation.

Thanks!.

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