September 19, 1863 to September 20, 1863

CATOOSA, Georgia, WALKER, Georgia

The Battle of Chickamauga, Braxton Bragg

General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee was in sore need of a decisive victory in September 1863. Following the Army's failed invasion of Kentucky in 1862, Bragg had been steadily pushed out of Middle and Eastern Tennessee and into Georgia without putting up much of a fight. General William Rosecrans had proven a formidable commander of the opposing Army of the Cumberland. After General James Longstreet's...