Memoir 2, Page 105, Rosecrans and Hardee

"the advance of Genl. Rosecrans from Murfreesboro."

William Rosecrans (1819-1898) was a general in the Union Army who served mostly in the Western theater of the war. Like his Confederate counterpart, Braxton Bragg, Rosecrans was brusque and argumentative, traits that put him at odds with General Ulysses S. Grant; however, at this point in the war he was still in command of the Army of the Cumberland.

Rebel Genl. Hardee's Head Quarters were a few miles north-east of Wartrace

William J. Hardee (1815-1873) was a general in the Confederate Army and one of the foremost tacticians of the era. A career soldier and veteran of the Mexican-American war prior to the Civil War, he resigned from the US army following Georgia’s secession. While at first he was assigned to Arkansas as a lieutenant general, the death of his commanding officer sent him to Bragg’s Army of Tennessee.