Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Crittenden's Corps - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade
Little has changed with the Army of the Cumberland as of the 23rd, but dispatches show that General Rosecrans is slowly moving parts of the army into position for an advance. Detailed planning still remains to be done. Crittenden is ordered to move north to try to encircle Confederate cavalry thought to be at Bledsoe Creek, near Gallatin. It seems that nothing came of this.
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President Lincoln is struggling to hold his cabinet together - Secretary of State Seward and Secretary of the Treasury Chase have submitted resignations. Many of the cabinet were Lincoln's rivals for the Republican nomination in 1860, and this and other political differences have led to tensions. Lincoln does keep all of his cabinet together for now, after refusing to accept the resignations.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XX, Chapter XXXII, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 209-218.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 90-91.
- Shelby Foote: The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1I, Fredericksburg to Meridian, pp. 1-81.
- Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol 3. The Tide Shifts, pp, 600-603.
- Peter Cozzens, No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River, pp. 1-41.
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