Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Crittenden's Corps - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade
In the east, General Lee begins to move his Confederate army away from Fredericksburg, VA, in anticipation of invading the North; this campaign will end in early July at Gettysburg.
In Mississippi, Vicksburg is now fully invested and Grant receives reinforcements from western Kentucky. Plans by Rosecrans and Burnside are stalled due to plans to send more forces to Mississippi. Union command believes that the Confederates are reinforcing Johnston's army in Mississippi in order to defeat Grant and relieve Vicksburg.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XXIII, Chapter XXXV, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 381-388.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 110-111.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1I, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Shelby Foote, pp. 166-400.
- This Terrible Sound, The Battle of Chickamauga, Peter Cozzens, pp. 1-22.
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