49 Series I Volume XXX-IV Serial 53 - Chickamauga Part IV
| Page 49 | Chapter XLII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. |
the rebels have divided into two parties-one goes up the mountain near Pikeville on the road to McMinnville, under the command of Wharton, and the other has gone down the valley toward Anderson's Cross-Roads; both parties left early this morning. As I can catch neither of these parties by following after them, I shall cross the mountain by the Roberson road, and expect to be at McMinnville early to-morrow, and hope to secure this before Wheeler's party.
I hope that Colonel McCook will be able to beat back the rebels at Anderson's Cross-Roads and force him to go up the mountain at Dunlap. The rebels must have some 10,000 men from the most reliable information I can get. Their horses are represented as being in fine condition; my horses are much jaded, especially the battery horses of the Eighteenth Indiana Battery.
After I leave this point it will be unsafe to send couriers, and unless I have some very important information, I will not dispatch you until I reach McMinnville.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
GEORGE CROOK,
Brigadier-General.
NASHVILLE, TENN., October 2, 1863. [Received 4.40 p.m.]
Honorable E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
The last of the infantry of the Eleventh Corps reached their destination yesterday. The Twelfth are now passing through this city. I hope the movement will be satisfactory to you. I shall go to the front this morning.
JOSEPH HOOKER,
Major-General, Commanding.
NASHVILLE, October 2, 1863.
General GARFIELD,
Chattanooga:
I leave here to-day. Expect to reach Stevenson, as ordered, by daylight tomorrow. Eleventh Corps all en route from here except the artillery. Head of the Twelfth Corps will leave here to-day. No artillery up yet. I have no cavalry. Aggregate for duty, September 20: Eleventh Corps, 5,834; Twelfth Corps, 9,245. These numbers will be increased somewhat.
JOSEPH HOOKER,
Major-General.
NASHVILLE, October 2, 1863.
Major-General SLOCUM,
Care of ColonelT. A. Scott, Louisville, Ky.:
General Hooker directs you to furnish your command with all the tools allowed it by War Department, and an extra wagon-load
4 R R-VOL XXX, PT IV
| Page 49 | Chapter XLII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments