Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Crittenden's Corps - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade
By the 15th, General Rosecrans has made his plans and sends the orders for the army's advance. General Wood's division is ordered into the Sequatchie Valley, from the orders it appears that the corps will initially be somewhat south of Dunlap, TN. Wood's division (with 40th Indiana) will push an advance southeast to Walden's Ridge and then further on toward the Tennessee River opposite Chattanooga.
Wood reports his division ready to move on the 15th, although still lacking somewhat in forage for feeding the animals. There are no dispatches on the 16th but the move was likely in progress.
Rosecrans had developed a somewhat complicated plan; first to get a small force north of Chattanooga to give the appearance that the main attack would be from that direction, and if Bragg's Confederate army stayed in place as anticipated, to pass the city with most of his army through the ridges on its southwest, emerging south of the city. This would leave the Confederates forced to abandon Chattanooga without a fight..
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XXX, Chapter XLII, Part III, Correspondence, pp. 18-53.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 124.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1I, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Shelby Foote, pp. 663-685.
- This Terrible Sound, The Battle of Chickamauga, Peter Cozzens, pp. 1-34.
- The Chickamauga Campaign, Vol 1: A Mad Irregular Battle, David A. Powell, pp. 1-67.
- Events: 1863 - July to September
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