<prompt> Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mumwedzi waGunyana uye kutanga kwaGumiguru, Hondo yeCumberland yakasimbiswa nemauto eArmy yeTennessee, aitungamirirwa naMajor General William Tecumseh Sherman, pamwe chete nemapoka maviri kubva kuArmy yePotomac pasi paMajor General Joseph Hooker. Ulysses S. Grant, iye zvino ari mutungamiri mukuru wemauto eUnion kumadokero pasi peMasoja echitsva cheMississippi, akatsiva Rosecrans mukutungamira naGeorge H. Thomas; Grant aive nemutungamiri wemauto eUnion akabatanidzwa. Mumaawa ekutanga mangwanani aGumiguru 27, mauto eUnion akabata Browns Ferry, iyo yakavhura nzira yekuendesa kuAlabama; Kurwisa kweConfederate paWauhatchie mukati mehusiku hwaGumiguru 28-29 kwakaedza kutorazve chikepe asi kukundikana. Bragg ipapo musi wa 5 Mbudzi akatumira Longstreets corps kuKnoxville uye anenge ese evatasvi vake, achideredza simba rehondo yake; Bragg aitarisira kuti Grant aizomanikidzwa kubvisa chikamu chesimba rake kuti abvise varwi veMubatanidzwa muguta. Kurwisa kwokupedzisira kweUnion pauto reConfederate kwakatanga November 24, apo Hooker akatora Lookout Mountain  <response>: uye vakatyisidzira divi rokuruboshwe reConfederate. Zuva rakatevera racho, Sherman akarwisa divi rokurudyi reConfederate paMissionary Ridge asi akabatwa. Kubatsira Sherman uye kukwevera mauto eConfederate kubva kurudyi, Grant akarayira kuratidzira kunopesana neConfederate centre. Kuratidzira uku kwaThomas kwakashanduka kuita kurwisa kwakakwana uko kwakapwanya mutsetse weConfederate. Bragg akadzokera kuchamhembe kweGeorgia, achiunganidzazve mauto ake akapoteredza Dalton. Chikumbiro chake chokubvisirwa basa chakagamuchirwa pana December 1. Hardee akatora kutungamira kwechinguva cheuto, asi akaramba kupihwa kana kutungamira zvachose. Panzvimbo pezvo, Davis akagadza Joseph Johnston kuti atungamirire uto muna December 1863. 