William Starke Rosecrans was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U.S. Army officer. He gained fame for his role as a Union general during the American Civil War. He was the victor at prominent battles in the Western theater of the American Civil War. However, his military career declined after his defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, Ky., November 2, 1862—11 a. m.. Major-General HALLECK, General-in-Chief : Your dispatch received. Will keep you advised. Please send me the nine companies of…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 2, 1862. No. 2. Bowling Green, November 2, 1862. J. B. Anderson, esq., is hereby appointed military superintendent of railroads, Department of the Cumberland, Fourteenth…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 3, 1862. No. 3. Bowling Green, November 3, 1862. There will be detailed immediately, from each company of every regiment of infantry in this army,…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 3, 1862. No. 4. Bowling Green, Ky., November 3, 1862. The following telegram has been received from the Secretary of War, and is published for…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 4, 1862. Maj. Gen. THomas L. CRITTENDEN, Commanding Second Army Corps: GENERAL: The general commanding directs that you halt Smith at Glasgow until…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 5, 1862. No. 8. Bowling Green, Ky., November 5, 1862. I. Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas is assigned to the command of the center of…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 6, 1862. November 6, 1862—12 midnight. Major-General CRITTENDEN : I send you copy of dispatch just received from Mitchellsville. We have sent forward cavalry to…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 6, 1862. Major-General McCook, Carter’s, 5 miles beyond Mitchellsville, with Sheridan’s Div., via Mitchelisville and courier line: Communication received. Move on to Nashville.…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY OORPS, Bowling Green, November 6, 1862—8 p. m.. General McCook, Edgefield Junction, via Mitchellsville and courier line : We have nothing from Colonel Kennett as to where…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 6, 1862. Major-General WRIGHT, Cincinnati : The southwestern part of this State has been a disturbed district all summer. It is a granary…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY OCURPS, Bowling Green, November 6, 1862. Major General WRIGHT, Cincinnati: Kirby Smith, with 20,000, guards East Tennessee. McCown is at Cumberland Gap. Two brigades at Big Creek…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY OCURPS, Bowling Green, November 6, 1862. Major General WRIGHT, Cincinnati: Kirby Smith, with 20,000, guards East Tennessee. McCown is at Cumberland Gap. Two brigades at Big Creek…
Cincinnati, Ohio, November 7, 1862. Maj. Gen. GORDON GRANGER, Lexington, Ky.: General Boyle telegraphed yesterday that he has information of large train of rebel wagons entering Whitley County from Tennessee…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 7, 1862. November 7, 1862—9 a. m. Maj. Gen. THomAS L. CRITTENDEN, Commanding Second Army Oorps: GENERAL: Your three communications of yesterday are received. The…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 7, 1862—11 p. m.. Major-General CRITTENDEN : GENERAL: Dispatch just received from General McCook. He entered Nashville at 8 a. m. this morning.…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Bowling Green, November 7, 1862. General CRITTENDEN : Colonel Zahm, commanding cavalry east of railroad, reports Morgan at Gallatin late last night, with strong pickets. Crush…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 7, 1862. No. 7. Bowling Green, Ky., November 7, 1862. of courier lines. All such lines will be under his general direction, and his orders…
Bowling Green Bowling Green, November 8, 1862. Col. J. O. KELTON, Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington, D. O.: COLONEL: I have the honor to transmit, for the information of the General-in-Chief, the…
‘HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 8, 1862—10 p. m.. Communication and dispatch of 12 m. received. Have instructed General McCook to send you 50,000 assorted rations as soon…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 8, 1862—10 p. m.. Major-General CRITTENDEN, Gallatin : Fifty thousand rations have been sent to Fountain Head for the use of your army.…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 8, 1862. Major-General McCook, Nashville : Send all your available railroad force to work on bridges from Nash ville to tunnel. If you…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Bowling Green, November 8, 1862—9 p. m. Major-General McCook, Nashville : General Crittenden camps on the Cumberland to-night. You must send him 50,000 rations (assorted) as…
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, November 12, 1862. No. 12. Nashwille, Tenn., November 12, 1862. I. In establishing courier lines, a commissioned officer must be placed in charge of each line,…
HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, Nashville, November 12, 1862. Major-General WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio: The general commanding directs me to state that Col. S. D. Bruce has been sent with seventeen companies…