Bailey's Crossroads, Walker County, Georgia

Bailey's Crossroads in Walker County, Georgia (Historic Marker)
"Bailey's Crossroads," Latitude 34 North, Historic Markers Across Georgia, Chickamauga Campaign Trail, (Georgia Hwy. 193 at West Cove Road, Chickamauga, Ga.; North 34.77078333, West -85.40428333)
http://bit.ly/Lat34north-Hist-Markers-GA-Baileys-Xroads

McLemore Cove Historic District (including Bailey's Crossroads)
"McLemore Cove Historic District," National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service
http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/94001140.pdf

Crawfish Spring Quote (to hold at all hazards); and Union Hospital (Gordon Lee House)

J.A. Garfield (Rosecrans's Chief of Staff) relays orders to General Robert B. Mitchell (Chief of Cavalry) to "defend the hospitals at all hazards." The hospital is known to have been located at Gordon Lee House near Crawfish Spring.

Order:

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
                                         September 20, 1863.

Brig. Gen. R. B. MITCHELL,
    Commanding Cavalry:
GENERAL: With your entire cavalry force adhere close to General McCook's right, sending patrols with all the wagon trains to the rear. You will defend the hospitals at all hazards. Cover also the closing up of Post's brigade, now on its march to join the main army. The general is dissatisfied that you do not report oftener.
       Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. A. GARFIELD,
Brigadier-General, Chief of Staff.

Citation:
Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 30, Pt. 1 [Reports], Chp. 42 ["The Chickamauga Campaign"], 137 [Garfield to Mitchell].
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Report of General Mitchell (Rept. no. 214), in which he says that he was ordered to hold Crawfish Spring (during the Battle of Chickamauga). October 3, 1863.

Report No. 214.

Report of Brig. Gen. Robert B. Mitchell, U. S. Army, Chief of Cavalry.

Headquarters, Chief of Cavalry,
Island Ferry, October 3, 1863.

[Quoted segment, relevant to Crawfish Spring]:
About 3 p. m. I received verbal orders from an orderly from General McCook to fall back, as our right had been turned. Not deeming an order of so important a nature as that, coming in such a manner, valid, I did not move, as I had been ordered in the morning to hold Crawfish Spring at all hazards, but sent staff officers to ascertain the position of affairs, and, if possible, communicate with either General McCook or Rosecrans. From them I learned that our right had been driven round and that everything on the right was moving toward Chattanooga up Chattanooga Valley."
[End of quoted segment]:

Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 30, Pt. 1 [Reports], Chp. [42], 893 [Report No. 214, Gen. Robt. B. Mitchell, 890-894]

Portal to Texas History: Link to Digitized Images of Source
OFFICIAL RECORDS, SERIES I, VOLUME XXX, PART I - REPORTS.
Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 30, Pt. 1 [Reports].
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth152978/

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FULL-TEXT VERSION, TEXT FILE ONLY, AUTO-GENERATED, WITH ERRORS
Here is a link to a full-text version, via Cornell University. This version was automatically generated and is full of errors!
http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/moawar/text/waro0050.txt

Cornell's Citation:
TITLE: The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. / Series 1 - Volume 30 (Part I)
AUTHOR: United States. War Dept., John Sheldon Moody, Calvin Duvall Cowles, Frederick Caryton Ainsworth, Robert N. Scott, Henry Martyn Lazelle, George Breckenridge Davis, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph William Kirkley
PUBLISHER: Govt. Print. Off., Washington, 1890

Battle of Chickamauga dates: Sept. 19, 1863 and Sept. 20, 1863 (main battle).

More citation info, Official Records series

Related, this blog: Chickamauga

Link to Map showing A.M. McCook's Route from Lafayette to McLemore's Cove

Map of Alex M. McCook's Route from Lafayette, Georgia, to McLemore's Cove

The Battle of Chickamauga 19-20 Sept. 1863 (web page) has several maps, including this helpful map of McCook's route back up to McLemore's Cove. This cove is a hollow formed by two mountains, Lookout Mountain, and Pigeon Mountain, which juts out to the east of Lookout. After scouting down through Valley Head to Alpine, Alabama, McCook was to return to McLemore Cove. Instead of taking a short route, he took the long route back up in the same way he came.
http://www.aotc.net/Chickamauga.htm

Related topics in this blog: Lookout Mountain Crossing, Sand Mountain Crossing, and Winston's Gap.

Major General James Scott Negley, by Major Keith A. Barclay (thesis, link)

 Major General James Scott Negley and His Division at Chickamauga: A Historical Analysis
(PDF, 136 pages)

Major Keith A. Barclay
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
B.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, 1989


[THESIS: 136-PAGE PDF DOWNLOADS AUTOMATICALLY WHEN YOU CLICK ON LINK. ]
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA395223

Thesis Subjects: General James Scott Negley, The Chickamauga Campaign

Lee and Gordon's Mill (link)

Lee and Gordon's Mill (History, Summary)
http://roadsidegeorgia.com/site/leeandgordonmill.html

History of Lee and Gordon's Mill, near Chickamauga, Walker County, Georgia. Site of importance in the Chickamauga Campaign, the Chattanooga Campaign, and the Atlanta Campaign. Dates of particular significance include summer and fall of 1863 (September - November 1863).

Chickamauga (WikiPedia article, quick lookup)

The Battle of Chickamauga (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chickamauga

Winston's Gap, Lookout Mountain Crossing, Campbell, McCook, etc. (Congressional Serial Set, search result)

War of the Rebellion ("Official Records")

War of the Rebellion ("Official Records")

Volume 30:
Volume XXX (in four parts).
Part I (Part 1) Reports (Aug. 11-Sept. 22, 1863).

Chapter XXXII (Chapter 32):
              Operations in Kentucky, Southwest Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Alabama, and North Georgia. August 11-October 19, 1863.

Page x: Contents of the Preceding Volumes. (This is a handy list w/volume number, chapter number, and description of each of about five preceding volumes; handy when you're trying to figure out where to find a report). The current volume "chapter" description is basically, "page 1-1031." To get a breakdown of it, I guess you'd look in the subsequent volume, i.e.--vol. 33 will have a breakdown of reports, by page number, that are found in volume 32. (In other words, they had to wait till each volume was printed to know what page a report fell on). The following is incomplete--just a couple of reports I've used myself...

Volume 30:
Page 3: Summary of the Principal Events.
        This has a description of the subsections of the volume (but without page references), which include the Raid on the Mississippi Central Railroad, the Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Miss., and the Chickamauga Campaign, among other sections. My most recent research includes The Chickamauga Campaign, so many of my sources relate to it.

Reports I've cited:

Page 5: No. 1 Report of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, U. S. Army, with instructions to Col. Edwin F. Winslow.
Headquarters Fifteenth Army Corps,
Camp on Big Black, September 5, 1863.

Page 47: No. 3 Report of Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, U. S. Army, commanding the Army of the Cumberland.
[October --, 1863.]

        (Page 54, still in Rosecrans's report, has the Winston's Gap segment).

Also found in:

Congressional Serial Set w/Multiple Reports by A.P. Campbell, E.M. McCook, and Others
The Chickamauga Campaign, Crossing Lookout Mountain, Winston's Gap, etc.
Via Google eBooks; shortened URL: http://bit.ly/OR_Winstons-Gap-search

This link is specifically a search for Winston's Gap, but the book can be searched for related events and subjects, such as Lookout Mountain, McCook, skirmish, etc.

Role of Union Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign, The: John J. Londa (link)

The Role of Union Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign
Major John J. Londa
Master's thesis,  United States Military Academy, 1978; pub. Ft. Leavenworth, 1991.

PDF - 149 PAGES. AUTOMATIC DOWNLOAD WHEN YOU CLICK ON LINK!
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a241432.pdf

This source contains a further breakdown of Stanley's Cavalry Corps, into two divisions of three brigades each, with several officers pertinent to my own Civil War project; namely, A.P. Campbell, E.M. McCook, and Eli Long. Two other officers, Watkins and Lowe, are less often mentioned in my particular sources). See pages 22 and 24 for organization charts.

So far, I've only skimmed this one, but I usually find these thesis papers helpful. I'm no expert, so I can't vouch for the quality of the research or anything. Take it on its own merit.

Chickamauga: The Battles for Chickamauga, High Command Politics (Link)

The Battles for Chickamauga, High Command Politics, National Park Service
contains a breakdown of the corps of the Union Army and Army of the Cumberland;
Five elements: Crittenden XXI Corps; Thomas's XIV Corps, Alex McCook's XX Corps (Union Army); David S. Stanley's Cavalry Corps (Army of the Cumberland); and Gordon Granger's Reserve Corps. https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/civil_war_series/10/sec2.htm

The National Park Service site (above) has a summary of events at Chickamauga, and I found it helpful in identifying the main commanders in the Army of the Cumberland. Many sites only mention the top three of Rosecrans' commanders: Thomas, McCook, and Crittenden; this one adds Stanley and Granger, which certainly helped me understand why my guys crossed the mountain at Stevenson, Alabama (with Stanley's Corps, not McCook's; or at least, if under McCook, more specifically in Stanley's Corps). And, by the way, this one doesn't mention Washington Lafayette Elliott, who relieved David S. Stanley when he fell ill in 1863. The following source actually gives the day for that fact, not just the month and year:

16 November 1863: General D. S. Stanley (Davis S. Stanley): "relieved from duty as chief of cavalry, Army of the Cumberland, and General W. L. Elliott placed in command."
Source: History of the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, by W. R. Carter, The Overmountain Press, 1992 (reprint), 108.
Short URL: http://bit.ly/Source_David-S-Stanley-relieved-of-duty-for-illness