Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Granger's Corps - Sheridan's Division - Wagner's Brigade
The attack on Missionary Ridge had been planned for the morning of the 21st, but on the 20th, Sherman's forces had not yet fully come up to the attack point. In the end it would be a few more days before everything could be ready.
Sherman's divisions had been moving out of sight of the Confederates, and General Bragg assumed that Sherman had gone east to relieve Union forces defending Knoxville. As a result, Bragg decided to detach more divisions to East Tennessee, which would further weaken his force on Missionary Ridge.
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On the 19th, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address and the dedication of the Gettysburg battlefield.
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XXXI, Chapter XLIII, Part III, Correspondence, pp. 173-212.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 132-133.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1I, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Shelby Foote, pp. 834-837.
- The Shipwreck Of Their Hopes, The Battle Of Chattanooga, Peter Cozzens, pp. 112-122.
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, pp. 418-432.
- Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, pp. 396-398.
- Events: 1863
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