Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016. The 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries and caucuses were a series of electoral contests taking place within all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories, occurring between February 1 and June 7. Sanctioned by the Republican Party, these elections are designed to select the 2,472 delegates to send to the Republican National Convention, who selected the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, Donald Trump. The delegat
BATTLE MAP | Civil War Trustâs map of the Battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee on November 25, 1863
After his successful Tullahoma Campaign, Rosecrans renewed the offensive, aiming to force the Confederates out of Chattanooga. In early September, Rosecrans consolidated his forces scattered in Tennessee and Georgia and forced Bragg's army out of Chattanooga, heading south.he Union army occupied Chattanooga on September 9. Rosecrans telegraphed Halleck, Chattanooga is ours without a struggle and East Tennessee is free.. Bragg was aware of Rosecrans's dispositions and planned to defeat him by attacking his isolated corps individually.