Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Granger's Corps - Sheridan's Division - Wagner's Brigade
Granger's corps has moved about 15 miles east of Knoxville (near Strawberry Plains, TN) toward Longstreet's Confederate forces. General Sheridan is placed in charge of this force by General Granger. Wagner's brigade arrives at Strawberry Plains on the 16th, and proceeds onward to Blain's Cross Roads the same day.
Sherman continues to slowly move his forces back to Chattanooga. Grant is preparing to move his headquarters back to Nashville and leave General Thomas in command at Chattanooga.
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XXXI, Chapter XLIII, Part III, Correspondence, pp. 412-444.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 137.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1I, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Shelby Foote, pp. 862-869.
- Decision In The West, The Atlanta Campaign of 1864, Albert Castel, pp, 1-18.
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, pp. 442-462.
- Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, pp. 396-413.
- Events: 1863
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