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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16
Chapter 16:
South Carolinians at Chickamauga
organization of the armies
South Carolinians engaged
their heroic service and sacrifices.
The armies of Generals Bragg and Rosecrans, which were to fight the battle of Chickamauga on the 19th and 20th of September, 1863, were widely separated in the early part of August, Bragg at Chattanooga and Rosecrans beyond the Cumberland mountains, with the Tennessee river rolling between them.
About the middle of August, the Federal general broke up his encampments and moved his army across the mountains to the Tennessee.
Crittenden's corps threatened Chattanooga through the gaps in Walden's ridge, while Thomas' corps and McCook's moved to Stevenson, Bridgeport and the vicinity.
Rosecrans established his depot at Stevenson and passed his army over the river on pontoons, rafts and boats, and boldly crossed Sand mountain to Trenton.
He was on the flank of General Bragg by the 8th of September, and by the 12th had crossed Lookout