 Complete the following phrase:  Kirby Smith pleaded with Bragg to follow up on his success: For Gods sake, General, let us fight Buell here. Bragg replied, I will do it, sir, but then displaying what one observer called a perplexity and vacillation which had now become simply appalling to Smith, to Hardee, and to Polk, he ordered his army to retreat through the Cumberland Gap to Knoxville. Bragg referred to his retreat as a withdrawal, the successful culmination of a giant raid. He had multiple reasons for withdrawing. Disheartening news had arrived from northern Mississippi that Earl Van Dorn and Sterling Price had been defeated at 