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Doc. 36.-the battle of Chickamauga. General T. J. Wood's report. headquarters First division Twenty-First army corps, Chattanooga, Tenn., September 29, 1863. Sir: At early dawn of the morning of Sunday, the sixteenth August, I received an order to move with my division from Hillsboroa, Middle Tennessee, by the most practicable and expeditious route across the Cumberland Mountain to Sherman in the Sequatchy Valley. Wednesday evening, the nineteenth, was the time fixed for the division to arrive at the destination assigned to it. The Second brigade (Wagner's) had for a month previously occupied Pelham, near the foot of the mountains, and General Wagner had been ordered to repair the road up the mountains known as the Park road. As the order of movement left to my discretion the route by which my division should cross the mountains, I determined to make the ascent by the Park road, thence to Tracy City, thence by Johnson's to Purdon's, where I would fall into the roa
Doc. 38.-the battle of Mission Ridge. General T. J. Wood's report. headquarters Third division Fourth army corps, in the field in East Tennessee, December 29, 1863. Sir: As early as the fifteenth of November, ultimo, it was generally known among the higher commanders of the troops assembled in Chattanooga, that a movement was in contemplation to cause the investment, which had then continued nearly sixty days, to be raised. The investing force, commanded by General Braxton Bragg, of the rebel army, comprised eight divisions of infantry arranged in four corps, under the lead of some of the ablest officers in the enemy's service. Reliable information, obtained at the time the movements for raising the investment were in contemplation, showed that the rebel divisions averaged not less than six thousand infantry each. This estimate would give forty-eight thousand infantry as about the investing force. Including the artillery and cavalry, it would be a moderate estimate
rigade was on the left of Brown's. Subsequently Wood's brigade, of Cleburne's division, was formed od to be within supporting distance of Brown and Wood. For several hundred yards both lines pressed Ordering the brigades to direct themselves by Wood's (the centre) brigade, and preserve brigade dihkiss, my Chief of Artillery, placed Polk's and Wood's artillery in position in the cleared field in be rectified, Polk's brigade, and the right of Wood's encountered the heaviest artillery fire I havo wings had already come in collision ; part of Wood's brigade had passed over Bate's brigade of Sten rear of the left wing of the army. I ordered Wood to move forward the remainder of his brigade, oack with the rest of his line, and with his and Wood's brigades I took up a strong defensive positiowas firing in my front, and soon thereafter General Wood's command came back, passing over my line. tion on the hill with the brigades of Brigadier-Generals Wood and Polk, in rear of my line. He aft[8 more...]
the pike, I found Colonel Harker's brigade, of Wood's division, retiring before a heavy force of thard. Colonel Harker, commanding a brigade of Wood's division, performed gallant service under my e of the river. At this time it was dark. General Wood had declared, when he received the order, tke, General Palmer's division on the right, General Wood on the left, General Van Cleve in reserve tced by Fyffe's brigade and Harker's brigade, of Wood's division, the enemy were pressed vigorously, w line. The country is deeply indebted to Generals Wood and Palmer for the sound judgment, skill, n who fell, fell fighting in the ranks. Generals Wood and Van Cleve being wounded on the thirty-eports show how nobly the troops behaved. Generals Wood and Van Cleve, though wounded early in thehe enemy's lines, relieving the division of General Wood, which was falling back under a heavy presslmer, Brigadier-General, commanding. General T. J. Wood's report. Nashville, Tenn., January[11 more...]
shall have my whole command ready to move in three days. That portion of my cavalry which did not accompany General Armstrong, has been ordered forward to Booneville, and General Little is moving his division to Guntown and Baldwin. I hope that nothing will prevent you from coming forward without delay, with all your disposable troops. Be pleased to telegraph your determination in such way, however, that it will not be understood by others, and to write to me fully by my Aide-de-Camp, Lieutenant Wood, who will land this to you. I enclose for your information copies of a letter from General Bragg, dated August twenty-seventh, and of a despatch from General Armstrong, announcing the result of an engagement in front of Bolivar. I am, General, with the greatest respect, Your obedient servant, Sterling Price, Major-General. M. M. Kimmel, Major, and A. A. G. From General Price to General Van Dorn. headquarters District of the Tennessee, Tupelo, September 4, 1862. Major