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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
ld have surrounded the rebel general, who had fallen back to Chattanooga. In order to prevent this disaster, Bragg was obliged to give up the prize of the campaign, having been fairly outgeneralled. Chattanooga was occupied by the national troops, on the 9th of September. Bragg, however, meant that this occupation should be temporary only, and having been largely reenforced, determined to give battle to Rosecrans. The rebel army was now at least sixty thousand strong; On the 31st of August, 1863, Bragg's effective strength was officially reported as forty-five thousand and forty-one men. This did not include Longstreet's corps, which, on the 20th of October, was reported at fifteen thousand two hundred and twenty-one (effective), nor Buckner's, which numbered nine thousand two hundred and seven; both of these forces participated in the battle of Chickamauga, so that Bragg's active force in that battle must have been fully sixty thousand men. while that of Rosecrans was reduce