The Moore County Historical Society will meet Sunday, Sept. 14,  at 2 p.m. at the Masonic Lodge in Lynchburg.

The speaker will be Jody Baltz and the topic will be “Bragg’s Evacuation of Tullahoma”.  The meeting is open to the public and all are welcome.  For further information contact Michael Northcutt at mbncutt@yahoo.com or phone 931-434-5797 or George Stone a georgestone@cafes.net or phone 931-581-2621.

Jody Baltz is the retired after 20 years as city manager of Tullahoma.  He is a long time Confederate Historian and member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and has been a historian for over 40 years.  He has taken descriptions and primitive maps of the troop movements and placed them on a modern day map of the area.  He has read extensively about the Tullahoma Campaign and walked many of the places where the action happened.  He has presented this program to many local groups in the area.

The Tullahoma campaign (or Middle Tennessee campaign) was a military operation conducted from June 24 to July 3, 1863, by the Union Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans, and is regarded as one of the most brilliant maneuvers of the American Civil War. Its effect was to drive the Confederates out of Middle Tennessee and to threaten the strategic city of Chattanooga.

The Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg occupied a strong defensive position in the mountains. But through a series of well-rehearsed feints, Rosecrans captured the key passes, helped by the use of the new seven-shot Spencer repeating rifle. The Confederates were handicapped by dissension between generals, as well as a lack of supplies, and soon had to abandon their headquarters at Tullahoma.