Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Granger's Corps - Sheridan's Division - Wagner's Brigade
General Schofield has reached Knoxville and taken command there, relieving General Foster who visits General Grant in Knoxville. Grant has ordered troops from Chattanooga to Knoxville, but thinks better of it after discussions with his generals. Any advance in East Tennessee will extend supply lines to an unmanageable extent. Troops are ordered to stay in Chattanooga and try to advance further into Georgia, with Dalton, GA as the first target.
Sherman with 20.000 men approaches Meridian, MS from the west while at the same time a Union cavalry force approaches from the north. Confederate forces in the area, greatly outnumbered, work on the 12th to send out supplies from the town before the Union arrival.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XXXII, Chapter XLIV, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 354-383.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 141-142.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1I, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Shelby Foote, pp. 923-924.
- Decision In The West, The Atlanta Campaign of 1864, Albert Castel, pp, 39-47.
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, pp. 462-464.
- Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, pp. 396-420.
- Events: 1864
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