Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Wood's Division
Still little to report on the 17th as the Union armies continue their slow advance toward Corinth, MS. General Halleck is trying to bring the various corps of the army into line near Sevenmile Creek, in anticipation of a coordinated advance from there. He is reprimanding General Buell for moving slowly and not having the center up and in line with the right and left, leaving them exposed on their flanks. Buell, rightly or wrongly, is gaining a reputation for being slow and not on time, and this will later be to his detriment.
Virginia - Peninsula Campaign
Confederate forces continue to fall back toward Richmond, as McClellan slowly advances with the large Union Army of the Potomac. There is becoming a compact Confederate line around the city, indicating that the large battles will soon begin. A Union army at Fredericksburg is ordered to advance toward Richmond as well. Union armies are thus approaching the city from the north and east.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume X, Chapter XXII, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 188-200.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 69-70.
- Shelby Foote: The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1, Fort Sumter to Perryville, pp. 382-384.
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