Hey everyone, welcome to episode 249 of our Civil War podcast.

My name is Rich.

And I'm Tracy.

Hello y'all.

Welcome to the podcast.

So this will be our fourth year in review episode for 1862, which we weren't sure about

spending that many shows on it, but we thought, hey, we spent 160 episodes to actually cover

1862.

So we're really doing pretty good to boil all of that down into four review shows, right?

Right.

Well, last time we made it through July and August and wrapped up the episode after talking

about the second battle of Manassas and the subsequent smaller clash at Chantilly were

two Union generals, Isaac Stevens and Phil Carney were killed.

However, during the last show, we also pointed out that even while we were talking about events

in Virginia, there were also some big goings on out in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Yep.

On August 28th, 1862, Confederate General Braxton Bragg led his army of Mississippi north

from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Bragg will take his men up into Kentucky following after a smaller Confederate force led by Edmund

Kirby Smith.

Kirby Smith's smaller command had already entered Kentucky and on August 30th, even

while the two-day battle of second Manassas was reaching its climax in northern Virginia.

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