The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 30, In Four Parts. Part 1, Reports. Page: 54
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54 KY., SW. VA., TENN., MISS., N. ALA., AND N. GA. LuHAP. XLII.
joined him near Ringgold on the 11th, and the whole corps moved
rapidly and successfully across to Gordon's Mills on the 12th. Wilder
following, and covering the movement, had a severe fight with the
enemy at Leet's Tan-yard.
During the same day the Fourth U. S. Cavalry was ordered to
move up the Dry Valley road, to discover if the enemy was in the
proximity of that road on Crittenden's right, and open communica-
tion with' Thomas' command, which, passing over the mountain,
was debouching from Stevens' and Cooper's Gaps, and moving on
La Fayette through Dug Gap of the Pigeon Mountain.
On the 10th, INegley's division advanced to within a mile of Dug
Gap, which he found heavily obstructed, and Baird's division came
up to his support on the morning of the 11th. Negley became sat-
isfied that the enemy was advancing upon him, in heavy force, and
perceiving that if he accepted battle in that position he would prob-
ably be cut off, he fell back after a sharp skirmish, in which Gen-
eral Baird's division participated, skillfully covering and securing
their trains, to a strong position in front of Stevens' Gap. On the
12th, Reynolds and Brannan, under orders to move promptly, closed
up to the support of these two advanced divisions.
During the same day General McCook had reached the vicinity of
Alpine, and, with infantry and cavalry, had reconnoitered the Broom-
town Valley to Summerville, and ascertained that the enemy had
not retreated on Rome, but was concentrating at La Fayette..
Thus it was ascertained that the enemy was concentrating all his
forces, both infantry and cavalry, behind the Pigeon Mountain, in
the vicinity of La Fayette, while the corps of this army were at
Gordon's Mills, Bailey's Cross-Roads, at the foot of Stevens' Gap, and
at Alpine, a distance of 40 miles, from flank to flank, by the nearest
practicable roads, and 57 miles by the route subsequently taken by
the Twentieth Army Corps. It had already beer ascertained that
the main body of Johnston's army had joined Bragg, and an accumu-
lation of evidence showed that the troops from Virginia had reached
Atlanta on the 1st of the month, and that re-enforcements were ex-
pected soon to arrive from that quarter. It was therefore a matter
of life and death to effect the
CONCENTRATION OF THE ARMY.
General McCook had already been directed to support General
Thomas, but was now ordered to send two brigades to hold Dough-
erty's Gap, and to join General Thomas with the remainder of his
command with the utmost celerity, directing his march over the road
on the top of the mountain. He had, with great prudence, already
moved his trains back to the rear of Little River, on the mountain,
but, unfortunately being ignorant of the mountain road, moved
down the mountain at Winston's Gap, down Lookout Valley to
Cooper's Gap, up the mountain and down again, closing up with
General Thomas on the 17th, and having posted Davis at Brooks',
in front of Dug Gap, Johnson at Pond Spring, in front of Catlett's
Gap, and Sheridan at the foot of Stevens' Gap.
As soon as General McCook's corps arrived General Thomas moved
down the Clhickamauga toward Gordon's Mills. Meanwhile, to bring
General Crittenden within reach of General Thomas and beyond
the danger of separation, he was withdrawn from Gordon's Mills, on
the 14th, and ordered to take post on the southern spur of Missionary
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 30, In Four Parts. Part 1, Reports., book, 1890; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152978/m1/65/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.