Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Crittenden's Corps - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade
On the 4th there is more correspondence from General Halleck demanding a forward move, and another response from General Rosecrans justifying his current actions. General Thomas on the 7th sends a plan to protect Nashville while moving on Knoxville. These are the beginnings of the discussion of the next moves of the army.
Forrest's Confederate cavalry is out and about and causing concern for the Union generals. Morgan's Confederate cavalry attacked Hartsville, TN on the 7th, capturing 1800 Union defenders and inflicting 2096 Union casualties total.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XX, Chapter XXXII, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 109-117.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 89.
- 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. 1-40.
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