Indeed, I doubt whether officers or men took any note at the time of the fact of this intermingling of commands.

All saw a defiant foe surrounding them, and took it for granted that every move was intended to dislodge him, and it made no difference where the troops came from so that the end was accomplished.
The victory at Chattanooga was won against great odds, considering the advantage the enemy had of position, and was accomplished more easily than was expected by reason of Bragg's making several grave mistakes: first, in sending away his ablest corps commander with over twenty thousand troops; second, in sending away a division of troops on the eve of battle; third, in placing so much of a force on the plain in front of his impregnable position.
It was known that Mr.Jefferson Davis had visited Bragg on Missionary Ridge a short time before my reaching Chattanooga.

It was reported and believed that he had come out to reconcile a serious difference between Bragg and Longstreet, and finding this difficult to do, planned the campaign against Knoxville, to be conducted by the latter general.

I had known both Bragg and Longstreet before the war, the latter very well.

We had been three years at West Point together, and, after my graduation, for a time in the same regiment.