Realizing his situation in the Commonwealth of Kentucky is untenable, General Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Central Kentucky, orders the withdrawal of his forces into Tennessee.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 286.