In a resolution approved on December 21, 1864, the legislature expressed its general appreciation for "all the brave officers and soldiers fighting for the cause of the Union." It also, however, entertained "peculiar gratitude" for the victories of the Army of the Cumberland and the Army of the Mississippi for victories recently won at Stones River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge. It also expressed appreciation to the "chivalrous Burnside" who had freed the loyal people of east Tennessee from "rebel rule and tyranny." The legislature also thanked generals W. S. Rosecrans and Ulysses S. Grant for their "brilliant victories and achievements."
Images of Union Officers, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Starke Rosecrans from The Photographic History of the Civil War (New York: Review of Reviews Co., 1911). Kentucky Historical Society Collections.
