. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. ove, and by pressing the cavalry in his front ascertain if the enemy is re-enforcing at Lee and Gordons Mills, in which case he will attack them inflank. 6. Wheelers cavalry will hold the gaps in Pigeon Mountain and cover ourrear and left and bring up stragglers. 7. All teams, etc., not with troops, should go toward Ringgold and Dalton,beyond Taylors Ridge. By command of General Bragg. G. W. Briant,Assistant Adjutant General. By permission of the author, Brevet Major General Ro
. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. ove, and by pressing the cavalry in his front ascertain if the enemy is re-enforcing at Lee and Gordons Mills, in which case he will attack them inflank. 6. Wheelers cavalry will hold the gaps in Pigeon Mountain and cover ourrear and left and bring up stragglers. 7. All teams, etc., not with troops, should go toward Ringgold and Dalton,beyond Taylors Ridge. By command of General Bragg. G. W. Briant,Assistant Adjutant General. By permission of the author, Brevet Major General Robert H. G. Minty, thefollowing quotations are made from Mintys Sabre Brigade: After the close of the Tullahoma campaign, when our great commander,General Rosecrans, or Old Rosy, as he was familiarly called, had drivenBragg from the line of Duck River and from Tullahoma, thus gaining posses-sion of that beautiful and fertile section, Middle Tennessee, he establishedhis headquarters at Winchester, under the shadow of the Cumberland Moun-tains, and devoted himself actively to the work of re-opening the railroad and. GENERAL ROBERT H. G. MINTY. Fourth Michig-an Cavalry, Commanding Minty s Brigade. From a late photograph. HISTORY OF MICHIGAN ORGANIZATIONS. 87 accumulating supplies at the front in sufficient quantities to enable him tomake a further advance. On the first day of August, 1863, I was detached from the cavalry corpsand ordered to cover the left of the army in its advance to Chattanooga, andincidentally to clear the rebel cavalry out of the country as we advanced. I reported to General Crittenden, commanding the left wing, and underorders from him proceeded at once to McMinnville, where General Van Cleves•Division held the left of our position. .My brigade consisted of: The Fourth United States Cavalry, Captain J. B. Mclntyre commanding. The Fourth Michigan Cavalry, Major Horace Gray commanding. The Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel W. B. Sipes commanding. One secti
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