 While Bragg rested his troops and planned his next move, Buell marched north from Bowling Green and arrived in Louisville on September 25.Seeing his primary objective fallen into Union hands, Bragg turned to Bardstown, where he had expected to meet Smith.Smith was actually operating independently near Frankfort, and Bragg, now painfully aware that the lack of cooperation with Smith might prove the Confederates' undoing in Kentucky, began to disperse his troops into defensive postures at Bardstown, Shelbyville, and Danville.