We had dress parade this evening at 5 o'clock and important
orders were read to the command. The first is, that our division is now to be
known as the First Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps; second, that on a
march we are to carry only nineteen pounds, and third, that we are to be ready
to form a line of battle at a moment's notice. The reason for the last is that
the rebels have driven in our pickets on the right and may make a raid. News
came that a battle is being fought on the Chickamauga river, to the south of
Chattanooga, with heavy loss on both sides.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 143
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