Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Crittenden's Corps - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade
In the aftermath of the Battle of Perryville, the Union army proceeded to close up its lines and attempt to determine the location of the Confederate armies. General Thomas, commanding Crittenden's corps, was scouting eastward and is located between Perryville and Danville.
Buell advanced slowly, and Bragg remained just out of his reach. The Confederates were in the early stages of abandoning Kentucky, and moving back into Tennessee. By the 12th, Crittenden's corps had reached Dix River, east of Danville, and Bragg's army was at Camp Dick Robinson, the old Union troop staging area, just east of there on the other side of the river. The slow pursuit continued.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XVI, Chapter XXVIII, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 596-611.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 85-86.
- Shelby Foote: The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1, Fort Sumter to Perryville, pp. 726-740.
- Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol 3. The Tide Shifts, pp, 29-61.
- Kenneth Noe, Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle, pp. 73-334.
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