To safeguard Confederate use of the Mississippi, and to install a Confederate government in Kentucky.
Army of Tennessee was created in 1862.
The Confederate Army of Tennessee traced its origins back to the Spring and Summer of 1861. The governor of Tennessee, Isham G. Harris raised the provisional Army of Tennessee. It was transferred to the Confederate military service in July of 1861.
Answer The Confederate Army of Tenessee was named after the State and was commanded by General Braxton Bragg. The Union Army of Tennessee was named after the River. It originated as the Army of West Tennessee but was re-named. General Ulysses Grant was the commander.
Tennessee seceded from the Union after President Lincoln was elected and began raising an army. =]
Which one: Union or Confederate? CONFEDERATE The Army of Tennessee(CSA) was lead by Gen. Bragg and operated in west Tennessee and Mississippi. Its objective was to stop the advance of the Union troops in Tennessee. UNION After his victory at Fort Donnelson, Gen. Grant was promoted to command the District of West Tennessee. He formed the Army of Tennessee(USA) but later changed the name to Army of West Tennnessee. This army advanced into Tennessee and fought its first engagement at Shiloh. It continued to advance into Mississippi and laid seige on Vicksburg.
The Army of Tennessee was the name of a major Confederate army operating in and near the state of Tennessee. Their main job was to resist Union advances and keep Tennessee in the Confederacy. The Union also had a Army of the Tennessee. This army was under the command of General U S Grant until 1863 and later under William Tecumseh Sherman. It had the objective of controlling the Mississippi River and was later assigned to the march on Atlanta and on to the sea.
The south named its armies for the Department in which they operated. The entire south was divided into military departments, with a commander in each, who was also commander of the army troops in his Department. Thus, Lee commanded the Department of Northern Virginia (which was Virginia north of the James River) and so his army was the Army of Northern Virginia. The other main Rebel Army was the Army of Tennessee, from the Department of Tennessee. The north named its armies after rivers, so there was the Army of the Potomac, the Army of the Ohio, The Army of the Cumberland, the Army of the James, the Army of the Tennessee, and so on.
Please let us know what Army of Tennessee you are referring to: Confederate or Union and the relevant period of the war you need to get informed about.
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Army of Northern Virginia or the Army of Tennessee and Northern armies were called the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Tennessee.
The Union Army of the Tennessee attacked the Confederate Army of the Mississippi.
The Confederate Army of Tennessee was formed on November 20, 1862. It was encamped near Murfeesboro, TN. After an inconclusive battle against Union General Rosecrans, the Army moved down to Tullahoma, TN.