. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . f the Chickamauga, had been ordered up early in the afternoonbut reached the field too late to participate in the engagement o fthatday. They were however, put into line for a renewal of the battleof the 20th. Information was received from Lieutenant-GeneralLongstreet of his arrival at Ringgold and departure for the fieldFive small brigades of his corps (about five thousand effective in-fantry, no artillery) reached us in time to participate in the action—three of them on the 19th and two more on the 20th. This much of the report gives the gene
. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . f the Chickamauga, had been ordered up early in the afternoonbut reached the field too late to participate in the engagement o fthatday. They were however, put into line for a renewal of the battleof the 20th. Information was received from Lieutenant-GeneralLongstreet of his arrival at Ringgold and departure for the fieldFive small brigades of his corps (about five thousand effective in-fantry, no artillery) reached us in time to participate in the action—three of them on the 19th and two more on the 20th. This much of the report gives the general movement on the 19th, 218 BATTLES AND SKETCHES ARMY OF TENNESSEE. and explains the shifting of Braggs army which was facing to thewest to encounter Rosecrans change. Thomas brought on the bat-tle in an endeavor to use up a lone brigade that had been sent tosupport Forrest (Wilson). The volcano was fairly bursting whenLiddell with Govan and Walthall went also to Forrests whole force then opened up and the onslaught continued. MR. AM* MRS. SNODGRASS 4T THEIR HOME ONSNODGRASS HILL. in detail, each side overlapping until the whole army of Rosecransfrom left to right became engaged. Thomas was mystified when hediscovered that Walker was in his flank, and Rosecrans was dis-mayed when, instead of turning Braggs right, the tide of battleswept with demonical energy from his left to his right, and hisstubborn charges were met by refluent surges from the lines of , Palmer. Baird, Reynolds, and Johnson went in anG like theswaying of the waves, pushed on and receded with the onslaught ofrepellant forces, led by Walker, Cheatham, Stewart and Cleburne. At 10:45 Thomas said to Crittenden: If another division canbe spared send it without delay. At 3 :30 p. m. the enemy was press-ing Palmer with very hard fighting and he asked for Vancleve tocome to his assistance. At 7:10 (sunset) an attack on Johnson threwhim into great confusion and he wanted re-inforcements
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