Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Crittenden's Corps - Wood's Division - Wagner's Brigade
Colonel Wagner and his brigade (with the 40th Indiana) remains in place north of Chattanooga and continues to report on Confederate movements in the city and beyond. General Rosecrans in the meantime has gotten most of the army across the Tennessee River, and has designed for each of the three corps to move eastward through separate gaps in the mountains southwest of Chattanooga.
Crittenden's corps (minus Wagner's brigade) has reached Whiteside, TN and will be the most northerly corps; they will pass nearest Chattanooga, with the other two corps further south. Wagner is in command of the brigades north of the city, and has orders to cross the river and occupy Chattanooga if he determines it has been abandoned.
Elsewhere, forces under General Burnside have moved from Kentucky and taken Knoxville. Confederates previously in East Tennessee have moved back toward the rest of the Confederate army around Chattanooga.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XXX, Chapter XLII, Part III, Correspondence, pp. 294-380.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 125.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1I, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Shelby Foote, pp. 663-688.
- This Terrible Sound, The Battle of Chickamauga, Peter Cozzens, pp. 1-51.
- The Chickamauga Campaign, Vol 1: A Mad Irregular Battle, David A. Powell, pp. 1-89.
- Events: 1863 - July to September
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