[9] The above quotations are taken from some letters of W. S. Furay, a former war correspondent, published in the Cincinnati Gazette of 1888.
[10] Sixteen miles southeast of Tullahoma, near Decherd.
[11] Thirteen miles southeast of Tullahoma on railway.
[12] Forty miles southeast of Murfreesboro and thirty-five miles northeast of Tullahoma.
[13] Lee and Gordon’s Mill is twelve miles south of Chattanooga, on the Chickamauga River, where the Lafayette and Chattanooga wagon road crosses that stream. Ringgold is fifteen miles southeast of Chattanooga, on the east of Chickamauga, and is a railway station.
[14] Rebellion Records, Serial No. 52, p. 530. In General Halleck’s report (Id., Serial No. 50, p. 34), he says, that the abandonment of Chattanooga without defense gave plausibility to these reports by spies and deserters, that Lee was being reinforced from Bragg.
[15] Id., Serial No. 51, p. 27.
[16] See Robert U. Johnson and C. C. Buel (eds.), Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (N. Y., 1884-87), vol. 3.
[17] Rebellion Records, Serial No. 50, p. 54.
[18] Rosecrans’s report in Rebellion Records, Serial No. 50, p. 56.