Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Crittenden's Corps - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade
The loss of a brigade wagon train due to carelessness has General Rosecrans issuing a general order that all trains' escort soldiers must be armed at all times. No stowing of arms in the wagons is allowed. Rosecrans is still seeking more cavalry before he considers moving forward.
In the east, President Lincoln is dissatisfied after a conversation with General Burnside, and decides to remove him from command, promoting General Joseph Hooker in his place.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XXIII, Chapter XXXV, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 14-20.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 95-96.
- Shelby Foote: The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1I, Fredericksburg to Meridian, pp. 166-174.
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