James J. Andrews, a civilian spy, worked for Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell during his 1862 campaign against Fort Donaldson in Tennessee. After Buell's army entered Nashville and while he was planning further movement to the south, Andrews approached him with a scheme to cut the Memphis & Charleston Railroad by the destruction of the bridge over the Tennessee River at Bridgeport, Alabama, and the bridges over the Chickamauga Creek in north Georgia.

In March, 1862 Andrews, with eight men, set out for Atlanta to do what damage he could, but when he failed to find the engineer who had agreed to help him, his group returned to Nashville without achieving any results.

General Buell was a veteran of the Mexican War, and in 1861 took charge of the Department and Army of the Ohio. He fought in Tennessee during the summer of 1862 and drove Braxton Bragg out of Kentucky, but he received so much criticism that he was replaced in October, 1862 by General Rosecrans and tried before a military commission. Buell resigned from the army in June, 1864.

He died in 1898.

NORTH

Andrews | Bensinger
Brown | Buell
Buffum | Campbell
Dorsey | Hawkins
Knight | Llewellyn
Mason | Mitchel
Parrott | Pittenger
Porter | Reddick
Robertson | Ross
Scott | Shadrach
Slavens | Smith
G.Wilson | J.Wilson
Wollam | Wood

SOUTH
Bond | Bracken
Cain | Cox
Fuller | Haney
Harbin | Henderson
Martin | Murphy
Smith | Stokley

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