What were three goals of Confederate Braxton Bragg in his invasion of Kentucky in 1862?

Answer 1

ANSWER

1 - Compel Buell's Union Army to retreat from the Central Tennessee.

2 - Encourage a rising in favour of the Confederacy in Kentucky.

3 - Threaten from close the Line of the Ohio

Answer 2

Confederate General Braxton Bragg's mission was to conduct a full force raid into Kentucky, keeping the Union on defense, and offset Lee's retreat from Antietam. Bragg conducted what can be called an all arms raid into Kentucky. A raid in that he no plans to stay. His thrust into this border state with 35,000 troops met a larger Union army around the water holes at Perryville. He defeated Union General Buell narrowly but then discovered that he had failed to secure a sound logistic base. Bragg could not afford to hold his ground without a railroad to his rear so he beat a retreat back through Tennessee to Chattanooga. From there he moved up to Murfreesboro to Stones River, to act as a shield against any Union advance from Nashville. At the onset he accomplished his goal and his victory at Perrysville, slim that it was was a positive for the South.The campaign was also geared to relieving Union pressure on Vicksburg. Bragg's army actually marched to the suburbs of Louisville and Cincinnati.