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The Tullahoma Campaign is famous for not being famous, ending the same day that Vicksburg fell and Lee retreated from Gettysburg.
Although less decisive, this mostly bloodless campaign—won through maneuver in difficult weather/terrain—makes a great study in operational art.
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New Dispatch, on a nearly bloodless campaign of maneuver during the Civil War, amidst difficult geography and a once-in-lifetime period of rain.
Maneuver in the Mud: The Tullahoma Campaign
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Most wars are won through attrition; those that aren’t are usually won by rapidly exploiting a decisive campaign in a single principal theater.
What’s far rarer is coordinated action across multiple theaters at once—strategic maneuver, in other words.
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Sunday Dispatch, on the difficulties of coordinating actions across theaters to achieve synergistic effects.
Strategic Maneuver
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The Union army was dangerously exposed as it crossed the Cumberland Plateau toward Chattanooga. To protect it, a parallel thrust across the rail line at Knoxville cut off Confederate reinforcements from Virginia, while also opening a new avenue of advance on Chattanooga.
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We will look at the effect of these parallel offensives in Part 2 on the campaigns for Chattanooga, on the maneuvers of the Chickamauga Campaign. In the meantime, read more on Strategic Maneuver:
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Sunday Dispatch, on the difficulties of coordinating actions across theaters to achieve synergistic effects.
Strategic Maneuver
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A detailed write up (with great maps!) of an American Civil War campaign that really hit some operational art key notes. This is excellent stuff, I wish we'd see more books written with this structure!
The Tullahoma Campaign is famous for not being famous, ending the same day that Vicksburg fell and Lee retreated from Gettysburg.
Although less decisive, this mostly bloodless campaign—won through maneuver in difficult weather/terrain—makes a great study in operational art.
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The Bazaar of War retweeted
The Tullahoma Campaign is famous for not being famous, ending the same day that Vicksburg fell and Lee retreated from Gettysburg.
Although less decisive, this mostly bloodless campaign—won through maneuver in difficult weather/terrain—makes a great study in operational art.
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New Dispatch, on a nearly bloodless campaign of maneuver during the Civil War, amidst difficult geography and a once-in-lifetime period of rain.
Maneuver in the Mud: The Tullahoma Campaign
dispatch.bazaarofwar.com/p/m…
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The Tullahoma Campaign is famous for not being famous, ending the same day that Vicksburg fell and Lee retreated from Gettysburg.
Although less decisive, this mostly bloodless campaign—won through maneuver in difficult weather/terrain—makes a great study in operational art.
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New Dispatch, on a nearly bloodless campaign of maneuver during the Civil War, amidst difficult geography and a once-in-lifetime period of rain.
Maneuver in the Mud: The Tullahoma Campaign
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Yet for all the imperfections of Rosecrans’—and especially Bragg’s—performance, Tullahoma makes an extremely interesting study. The staff work alone is impressive for how it coordinated extremely complex movements over bad country roads, especially in such adverse weather.
ALT From Emerging Civil War: https://emergingcivilwar.com/2019/09/25/mapping-the-tullahoma-campaign/
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Just as we learn more from our own mistakes than our successes, there is often more to learn from the imperfect brilliance of a Tullahoma than the masterstrokes of Austerlitz or Fall Gelb. Read about it in much more detail here:
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