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Army of Tennessee
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Army of Tennessee the main Confederate army in the West during the
Civil War, the Army of Tennessee was assembled at Corinth, Mississippi, by Gen.
Albert Sidney Johnston in March 1862 and commanded successively by Gens.
Joseph E. Johnston,
P.G.T. Beauregard,
Braxton Bragg,
Joseph E. Johnston, and
John B. Hood. The Army of Tennessee, again under the command of Joseph E. Johnston, surrendered to Union forces on April 26, 1865, near Durham, North Carolina, having participated in the battles of
Shiloh,
Perryville (both 1862),
Stones River (1862–63),
Chickamauga (1863),
Missionary Ridge (1863),
Atlanta (1864),
Franklin (1864),
Nashville (1864), and
Bentonville (1865). The Confederate Army of Tennessee should not be confused with its principal opponent, the Union
Army of the Tennessee, created October 16, 1862, and commanded successively by Gens.
Ulysses S. Grant,
William T. Sherman,
James B. McPherson,
John A. Logan, and
Oliver O. Howard. The Union Army of the Tennessee was mustered out of service on August 1, 1865, having served in the winter campaign in northern Mississippi in 1862, the
Vicksburg campaign of 1863, the
Atlanta campaign of 1864, Sherman's
March to the Sea (1864–65), and the Carolinas campaign of 1865.
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