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39 Series I Volume XXXI-I Serial 54 - Knoxville and Lookout Mountain Part I

Page 39 Chapter XLIII. REOPENING OF THE TENNESSEE RIVER.

OCTOBER 26-29, 1863.-Reopening of the Tennessee River, including Skirmish (27th) at Brown's Ferry and Engagement (28th and 29th) at Wauhatchie, Tennessee

REPORTS.*


Numbers 1.-Maj. General George H. Thomas, U. S. Army, commanding Department of the Cumberland, with field dispatches and congratulatory orders.


Numbers 2.-Charles A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War.


Numbers 3.-Return of Casualties in the Union forces at Wauhatchie.


Numbers 4.-Brig. General William F. Smith, U. S. Army, Chief Engineer, Department of the Cumberland.


Numbers 5.-Colonel Timothy R. Stanley, Eighteenth Ohio Infantry.


Numbers 6.-Itinerary of the First Division, Fourth Army Corps.


Numbers 7.-Brig. General William B. Hazen, U. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade, Third Division.


Numbers 8.-Lieutenant Colonel James C. Foy, Twenty-third Kentucky Infantry.


Numbers 9.-Lieutenant Colonel Bassett Langdon, First Ohio Infantry.


No. 10.-Colonel Aquila Wiley, Forty-first Ohio Infantry.


No. 11.-Major William Birch, Ninety-third Ohio Infantry.


No. 12.-Maj. General Joseph Hooker, U. S. Army, commanding Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps, with congratulatory orders.


No. 13.-Maj. General Oliver O. Howard, U. S. Army, commanding Eleventh Army Corps.


No. 14.-Surg. Daniel G. Brinton, U. S. Army, Medical Director.


No. 15.-Brig. General Adolph von Steinwehr, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division.


No. 16.-Itinerary of the First Brigade, Colonel Adolph Buschbeck commanding.


No. 17.-Itinerary of the Second Brigade, Colonel Orland Smith commanding.


No. 18.-Lieutenant Colonel Godfrey Rider, jr., Thirty-third Massachusetts Infantry.


No. 19.-Colonel James Wood, jr., One hundred and thirty-sixth New York Infantry.


No. 20.-Maj. Samuel H. Hurst, Seventy-third Ohio Infantry.


No. 21.-Maj. General Carl Schurz, U. S. Army, commanding Third Division.


No. 22.-Itinerary of the First Brigade, Brig. General Hector Tyndale commanding.


No. 23.-Itinerary of the Second Brigade, Colonel Wladimir Krzyzanowski commanding.


No. 24.-Brig. General John W. Geary, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division, Twelfth Army Corps.


No. 25.-Colonel George A. Cobham, jr., One hundred and eleventh Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding Second Brigade.


No. 26.-Colonel William Rickards, jr., Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry.


No. 27.-Captain Frederick L. Gimber, One hundred and ninth Pennsylvania Infantry.


No. 28.-Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M. Walker, One hundred and eleventh Pennsylvania Infantry.


No. 29.-Brig. General George S. Greene, U. S. Army, commanding Third Brigade.


No. 30.-Colonel David Ireland, One hundred and thirty-seventh New York Infantry, commanding Third Brigade.


No. 31.-Itinerary of the Third Brigade.


No. 32.-Lieutenant Colonel Herbert von Hammerstein, Seventy-eighth New York Infantry.


No. 33.-Captain Milo B. Eldridge, One hundred and thirty-seventh New York Infantry.

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*See also General Grant's report, Part II, pp.-.

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