Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Crittenden's Corps - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade
The Army of the Cumberland has not yet moved. Crittenden is in the area between Manchester and McMinnville. On the 4th, orders are received from General Halleck in Washington for the army to advance immediately. Rosecrans' response is to ask if he has any discretion in his movements. Halleck responds that the order is peremptory and the move forward must begin now.
There is very little activity in the west aside from continuing to pursue Morgan and the remainder of his cavalry forces.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XXIII, Chapter XXXV, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 585-592.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 123.
- 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. 1-22.
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