the field of Chickamauga would have been relinquished to us; but it

Rosecrans, McCook, and Crittenden passed out of the battle when they

went back to Chattanooga, and their absence was discouraging to all

aware of it. Doubtless this had much to do with Thomas's final

withdrawal, thus leaving the field to the enemy, though at an immense

cost in killed and wounded. The night of the 21st the army moved

back from Rossville, and my division, as the rearguard of the

Twentieth Corps, got within our lines at Chattanooga about 8 o'clock

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