Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4.
Henry Coppee , LL.D., Ed.

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[103] on the side of Alexander's Bridge by Baird's division marching with its left deployed and its right thrown back in column. If this movement succeeds, Reynolds will come up to lengthen the line of battle of the Fourteenth corps on the highroad and help Wilder, whose cavalry will put him in communication with the Twenty-first corps. Brannan and Baird, after having allowed their tired soldiers a brief rest, take up the line of march a little before nine o'clock in the morning. An hour has elapsed since Daniel McCook left them to join his command: he finds it engaged with Davidson's mounted brigade, which Forrest has recalled to occupy again Reed's Bridge, and which has advanced dismounted as far as Jay's sawmill. But, having received fresh instructions from Granger, McCook has retired northward without waiting for the assistance that Thomas has promised him, and without even informing him of the hostile force that Thomas is to encounter.

The Confederates, it is true, do not expect the storm which is gathering on their extreme right, and continue without hurrying the movement which night has interrupted. Walker, leaving, as we have said, Wilson at Shaelan's Ford, has resumed at daybreak his march in the direction of Gordon's Mills. It is only toward eight o'clock that, hearing behind him Davidson's guns, he halts his column at Alexander's Bridge. Johnson's troops, which have bivouacked a thousand yards from the main road in the woods to the north-east of Hall's farm, have been reorganized at daybreak. Law, as commander of the division, has resumed the direction of Robertson's and Benning's brigades, together with his own, which he had already so gallantly led at Gettysburg. Fulton's, Gregg's, and McNair's brigades, all three, have passed again under Johnson's direct orders: these two divisions constitute Hood's army corps. He immediately rectifies their position. Law is on the right, facing the road; Johnson prolongs his front by bringing back his left in the rear. Hood does not know whether the recesses of the forest on that side conceal friend or foe. It is without his knowledge that Buckner's two divisions have established themselves not far from there on the left bank of the Chickamauga. In the dawn of the morning Stewart's division is gathered upon this bank near Bend's and