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

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[134] half of Wilder's brigade. The rest of that brigade is posted on the right of Sheridan with his artillery. Crittenden's two divisions having had the most to go through, Rosecrans would like to spare them. Wood, having been recalled with Barnes' brigade, places himself on the right of Van Cleve, back of Sheridan's left, on a line with Davis' division. The movement of the right wing is fortunately accomplished before daybreak. In order to mask it the main skirmish-line has remained on the ground, and will slowly withdraw while delaying the progress of the enemy.

Bragg's army is still more broken than Rosecrans', and after the battle it will be necessary to displace most of the brigades, so as to collect the divisions and form similar lines. But the general disposition of the troops remains the same, and Bragg calls his lieutenants in the evening only to prescribe to them anew the execution of the plan which he had so unfortunately adopted on the 19th. Among the officers who gather toward eleven o'clock at night around his bivouac-fire there is noticed a newcomer of tall stature in the centre of a group: it is Longstreet. If only a few soldiers have served with him in the regular army, his face is known from one end of the Confederacy to the other. Having got out at the Catoosa Station in the afternoon, he has come here without halting, although misled by his guides, and hastened in the direction of the cannon's roar, which was calling him with a voice more and more pressing. Bragg immediately entrusts to him the command of his left wing, in which are the troops from Virginia, and which is the last to engage in the coming battle: this will allow him a few hours to survey the ground and study the position. It is, in fact, the right, still under Polk's command, which will open the fight, and, as on the preceding day, each division receives orders to engage the enemy only after the division on its right. But some fresh troops are required to inspire with confidence the soldiers who had been repulsed by Thomas on the previous day. Breckinridge brings them. Recalled from Gordon's Mills in the afternoon, he cleared the river at Alexander's Bridge about ten o'clock at night, finishing very late, it is true, notwithstanding his diligence, the concentration of the army on the left bank of the Chickamauga. Thus placed behind the right wing, he is ordered to go and take a position at the end of