ad marched and countermarched
until some of the infantry hardly knew whether they had feet or not. On
the other hand, Bragg had three divisions and three brigades who had not
participated in the battle, and who were thus fresh in every sense of
the word.

The battle was again to be for the Lafayette road and the mountain gaps
near it--the gateway to Chattanooga and the East. The centre of the
field was the farm owned by a man named Kelley. The battle front of the
Unionists ran around the northeast corner of the farm, across the
Lafayette road and to the southwestward. The firing line was more
compact than on Saturday, two brigades of each division being placed in
front, with the third brigade behind, in reserve. At the left of the
line was Baird, with Johnson, Palmer, and Reynolds following, in
something of a semicircle. South of this semicircle lay Brennan and
Negley, with Davis and Sheridan guarding the vicinity of the Widow
Glenn's--still Rosecrans's headquarters. As before, the cavalry was
stationed at both ends of the line, although the larger portion remained
between the Chickamauga and Crawfish Springs, to do regular duty and
also help guard the field hospital previously mentioned.

Bragg's forces overlapped those of Rosecrans's both on the right and the
left. Opposite to Baird was Breckinridge, who had just come up, with
Armstrong, Pegram, and Forrest overlapping the Unionists' left wing.
Next to Breckinridge came Cleburn, Steward, Johnson, and Hindman's
battery. Behind Johnson lay Law and Kershaw, with Cheatham and Walker
still further back, on the right; while Gracie, Kelly, and Preston were
to the rear on the left.

During the night the Army of the Cumberland was not idle, even though a
majority of the soldiers slept soundly. The pioneers were out in force,
with the Engineering Corps, and many barricades of trees, logs, and
brush were piled up, along with sods and loose rocks. The Confederates
heard the ringing of axes and the crashing of timber as it came down,
but could do nothing toward stopping the construction of these defences.

Sunday morning dawned with a heavy fog filling the valleys--a fog so
dense that the mountains were shut out, giving the battle-ground, from
every point of view, the appearance of a ghostly plain. This fog did not
begin to lift until nine or ten o'clock. Bragg had given Polk orders to
begin the battle, but minute after minute passed and the Confederate
leader sat impatiently