Planned Surprised Along the Cumberland River
Eric | January 18, 2012
January 18, 1862 (Saturday) Through December and early January, Union General Don Carlos Buell had been urged, poked, prodded, begged, implored and beseeched by both President Lincoln and General McClellan to advance into Eastern Tennessee from his base in Kentucky. Buell, however, always had an excuse as to why he couldn’t. For a time, it [...]













