Our long standing Civil War Lecture Series by our Civil War Curator, Joan Markel, is going digital! Stay tuned for more about local + regional Civil War figures.
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Robert E. Lee’s ‘Old War Horse’ was pleased with the August 1863 plan to reinforce the Army of Tennessee and perhaps saw himself as the successor to unpopular General Braxton Bragg. Infighting among the top Confederate generals led to Longstreet’s orders to retake Knoxville in early November. As Longstreet predicted, nothing about that campaign went well.
