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[119] oppose his passage through the mountains by the proposed route. But as will be seen later, Bragg's plan was altered so as not to take the Altamont route, but to keep on to Sparta.

The mountainous condition of the country through which General Bragg's trains had to come from Tupelo delayed their arrival and the advance of his army full a fortnight longer than he had expected and consumed invaluable time. Meantime he was perfecting his organization. His own force consisted of the following commands:

Right wing, army of the Mississippi.

Maj.-Gen. Leonidas Polk, Commanding.

Cheatham's division.

First brigade, Brig.-Gen. D. S. Donelson: Eighth Tennessee, Col. W. L. Moore; Fifteenth Tennessee, Col. R. C. Tyler; Sixteenth Tennessee, Col. John H. Savage; Thirty-eighth Tennessee, Col. John C. Carter; Fifty-first Tennessee, Col. John Chester; Carnes' battery, Capt. W. W. Carnes.

Second brigade, Brig.-Gen. A. P. Stewart: Fourth Tennessee, Col. O. F. Strahl; Fifth Tennessee, Col. D. C. Venable; Twenty-fourth Tennessee, Lieut.-Col. H L. Bratton; Thirty-first Tennessee, Col. E. E. Tansill; Thirty-third Tennessee, Col. W. P. Jones; Stanford's battery, Capt. T. J. Stanford.

Third brigade, Brig.-Gen. George Maney: Forty-first Georgia, Col. C. A. McDaniel; First Tennessee, Col. H. R. Feild; Sixth Tennessee, Col. Geo. C. Porter; Ninth Tennessee, Col. C. S. Hurt; Twenty-seventh Tennessee, Col. A. W. Caldwell; M Smith's battery, Lieut. W. B. Turner.

Fourth brigade, Brig.-Gen. Preston Smith: Twelfth Tennessee, Col. T. H. Bell; Thirteenth Tennessee, Col. A. J. Vaughan, Jr.; Forty-seventh Tennessee, Col. M. R. Hill; One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee, Col. E. Fitzgerald; Ninth Texas, Col. W. H. Young;


Atlanta, Ga. 1899.

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