Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade
General Buell learned of another cavalry defeat at Gallatin, TN on the 22nd, reducing an already thin Union cavalry. Buell had determined to gather his forces at Altamont, and divisions were ordered on the 23rd, to congregate at Altamont, TN on the 25th. General Thomas (and Wood's division) could not make Altamont and decided to return to McMinnville.
Bragg by this point had crossed some of his troops over the Tennessee River, but only on the 25th did he issue the orders for Confederate troops to advance.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XVI, Chapter XXVIII, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 387-424.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 78-79.
- Shelby Foote: The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1, Fort Sumter to Perryville, pp. 561-584.
- Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol 3. The Tide Shifts, pp,4-7, 31-41.
- Kenneth Noe, Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, pp. 32-58.
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