Army of the Cumberland

The Army of the Cumberland ( Army of the Cumberland, often simply Cumberland Army ) was a major unit of the U.S. Army in the American Civil War.

The army was created in the fall of 1862 by the renaming of the former Ohio Army. The namesake of the army was the river Cumberland, her first commander was Major General William Starke Rosecrans. The first battle led the Cumberland Army from 31 December 1862 to the January 2, 1863 at Stones River, where they fend off the attacks of the Confederate Tennessee Army and this could force them to dodge.

After restoring the standby led General Rosecrans in August with the army to Tullahoma campaign by, who scored major strategic successes. The important railway junction Chattanooga fell into the hands of the Unionists, and the Confederate Army of Tennessee had to dodge into northern Georgia. In the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, the Tennessee Army of the Cumberland Army inflicted a heavy defeat. The Yankees avoided a severe battering from Chattanooga. There the army was trapped.

Grant reorganized the Cumberland Army to strong. He replaced General Rosecrans by Major General George H. Thomas, who had shown stability at Chickamauga. He also summarized old Corps and expanded new reinforcements on. With the thus amplified Cumberland Army and some members of the Tennessee Army Grant succeeded in the Battle of Chattanooga in November 1863, the breakthrough of the Confederate lines - the city and the army were free again.

During the Atlanta campaign under Major General William T. Sherman, 1864, the Cumberland Army formed numerically strongest army, and was instrumental in taking the city of Atlanta. After the battle, it was mainly the Cumberland Army under Thomas, John Bell Hood's Tennessee, the Army stood against in the Franklin - Nashville Campaign and devastating hit him in the Battle of Nashville.