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On November 29, 1863, General Braxton Bragg wrote to General Samuel Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General of the Confederate Army, asking to be relieved from command of the Army Tennessee.

On June 20, 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis informed Braxton Bragg that he (Bragg) was replacing P. G. T. Beauregard as permanent commander of the Western Department.

On December 16, 1863, Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed General Joseph E. Johnston to command the Army of Tennessee.

On June 1, 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis wrote to General Robert E. Lee, assigning him to command of the troops in Eastern Virginia and in North Carolina that would soon be known as the Army of Northern Virginia.

On May 4, 1864, Confederate President Jefferson Davis instructed Leonidas Polk to bring his Army of the Mississippi to Georgia to join forces with Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee.

On November 30, 1863, General Samuel Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General of the Confederate Army informed General Braxton Bragg that President Jefferson Davis had relieved him from command of the Army of Tennessee.

On October 23, 1863, Confederate President Jefferson Davis informed General Leonidas Polk that he was relieved of duty from the Army of Tennessee.

On September 28, 1864, Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered John Bell Hood to relieve William J. Hardee from duty with the Army of Tennessee.

On July 18, 1864, Confederate President Jefferson Davis responded to a message from Generals John Bell Hood, William J. Hardee, and Alex Stewart questioning the timing of Hood's appointment as commander of the Army of Tennessee.

On January 23, 1865, John Bell Hood announced that he had been relieved of command of the Army of Tennessee at his own request.

On July 18, 1864, General John Bell Hood informed Confederate President Jefferson Davis that he had assumed command of the Army of Tennessee.

On July 18, 1864, General John Bell Hood sent a message to Samuel Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector-General of the Confederate Army, acknowledging his appointment as commander of the Army of Tennessee.

On July 18, 1864, General Joseph E. Johnston replied to orders from Confederate President Jefferson Davis to transfer command of the Army of Tennessee to General John Bell Hood.

On February 22, 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston informed Robert E. Lee that it was too late for Lee to expect Johnston to consolidate the Confederate troops in the Carolinas and drive back William T. Sherman.

On March 5, 1862, Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard issued a letter to his soldiers announcing he was assuming command of the Army of the Mississippi.

On January 23, 1865, Lieutenant General Richard Taylor informed the assistant adjutant general of the Confederacy that he had assumed command of the Army of Tennessee.

On February 22, 1865, Robert E. Lee (pictured here) ordered General Joseph Johnston to "Assume command of the Army of Tennessee and all troops in Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida."

On January 27, 1864, William T. Sherman ordered Brigadier General William Sooy Smith to drive south through Mississippi and rendezvous with him at Meridian on or about February 10.

On December 2, 1863, Confederate Lieutenant General William J. Hardee issued a message to the soldiers of the Army of Tennessee announcing that he had assumed command.

On October 6, 1864, William J. Hardee informed Samuel Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector-General of the Confederate Army that he had assumed command of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.