The Confederate army at my front at Dalton, Ga., comprised, according to the best authority, about 45,000 men, commanded by Joseph E. Johnston, who was equal in all the elements of generalship to Lee and who was under instruction from the war power at Richmond to assume the offensive northward as far as Nashville. But he soon discovered that he would have to conduct a defensive campaign. Coincident with the movement of the Army of the Potomac, as announced by telegraph, I advanced from our base at Chattanooga with the Army of the Ohio, 13,550 men; the Army of the Cumberland, 60,773 men; the Army of the Tennessee, 24,405 men (grand total, 98,707 men); and 254 guns.

INDEX.

Footnotes

[1] — Resigned soon after organization of Regiment, and Lieut. George C. Moore succeeded him, serving till the surrender.
[2] — This Company was not attached to the Regiment till just before the battle of Chickamauga. It had been the escort of General McGowan, who resigned, and it reported to the Fourth Tennessee, serving till the surrender. It was a very small company.
[3] — I was not in the Kentucky campaign of Gen. Braxton Bragg in the summer and early fall of 1862. I have asked Colonel Smith to write it, as he was a major in command of five companies that afterwards formed a part of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, of which he was commissioned colonel at its organization, in October, 1862. In order that this narrative may present a full history of their services and his own during the war, he has contributed the interesting account in Chapter XVII.
[4] — Granville Ridley enlisted in the Regiment when sixteen years of age, while Wheeler was on his last raid into Tennessee in 1864, and served faithfully till the surrender.

Transcriber’s Notes

The following corrections have been made in the text:
[1] — ‘Stuart’ replaced with ‘Stewart’
(bugler of the Regiment, J. A. Stewart,)
[2] — ‘Claiborne’ replaced with ‘Cleburne’
(attack of Generals Cleburne and Cheatham.)
[3] — ‘or’ replaced with ‘of’
(51 pieces of artillery)
[4] — ‘we’ replaced with ‘he’
(that he was wasting his weakening strength)
[5] — ‘Gather’ replaced with ‘Gaither’
(W. P. Gaither,)
[6] — (Cfd ＝ Confederate; Fed ＝ Federal; Vic ＝ Victor.)
Line added by the transcriber.
[7] — ‘Murfeesboro’ replaced with ‘Murfreesboro’
(I have indicated the Murfreesboro)
[8] — ‘Baily’ replaced with ‘Bailey’
(Bailey, Jonathan, 164.)
[9] — ‘Bowles’ replaced with ‘Boles’
(Boles, Jeff, 243.)
[10] — ‘Claiborne’ replaced with ‘Cleburne’
(Cleburne, General, 23, 116.)
[11] — ‘Douglass’ replaced with ‘Douglas’
(Douglas, John, 65.)
[12] — ‘Gant’ replaced with ‘Gaut’
(Gaut, William, 163.)
[13] — ‘Gillihan’ replaced with ‘Gilliham’
(Gilliham, E., 158.)
[14] — ‘Porter B.’ replaced with ‘B. Porter’
(Harrison, B. Porter, 165, 243.)
[15] — ‘24’ replaced with ‘12’
(McMillin, Capt., 12.)
[16] — ‘Murry’ replaced with ‘Murray’
(Murray, D. D., 241.)
[17] — ‘Neely’ replaced with ‘Meely’
(Meely, T., 160.)
[18] —

‘Nichols’ replaced with ‘Nichol’

(Nichol, Capt. J. W.)

[19] — ‘273’ replaced with ‘249’
(Smith, Col. Baxter, ... 186, 239, 249.)
[20] — ‘Strahl’ replaced with ‘Stahl’
(Stahl, General, 117.)
[21] — ‘Captain’ replaced with ‘Lieutenant’
(White, Lieutenant, 17.)