August 23, 1863
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this date, Gen. Joseph Johnston, in Mississippi, has been ordered to reinforce Bragg,
and therefore dispatches two divisions--about 9,000 men--to Chattanooga. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, with just nearly
9,000 men, is ordered to fall back on Chattanooga, thereby conceding Knoxville
to Burnside’s 15,000-man Army of Ohio (mostly the old IX Corps) advancing into
eastern Tennessee. Meanwhile, Gen.
Rosecrans has positioned Thomas’s XIV Corps and McCook’s XX Corps to the
southwest of Chattanooga, ready to strike across the mountain passes and
hopefully get behind the Confederate army and the city—and he has placed
Crittenden’s XXI Corps in position to cross the Tennessee north of the city, so
as to draw Bragg’s attention in that direction (which, in fact, it does).
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