Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Crittenden's Corps - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade
Rosecrans continues to have the same worries. He is attempting to bring back soldiers that are AWOL; he orders all soldiers that are away (with or without leave) to contact General Hascall in Indianapolis. Conscription has passed Congress and the bill is on President Lincoln's desk. Rosecrans believes conscription can fill out, and then add to, his army.
Confederate cavalry under Morgan has entered Kentucky again on another raid. Union command believes this is to gather horses to mount some of the Confederate infantry.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XXIII, Chapter XXXV, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 81-87.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 97-98.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1I, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Shelby Foote, pp. 166-174.
- This Terrible Sound, The Battle of Chickamauga, Peter Cozzens, pp. 1-22.
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