C.Davis was moved close up to Ringgold, to assist General Hooker if needed, and the Fifteenth Corps was held at Grayeville, for any thing that might turn up.

About noon I had a message from General Hooker, saying he had had a pretty hard fight at the mountain-pass just beyond Ringgold, and he wanted me to come forward to turn the position.

He was not aware at the time that Howard, by moving through Parker's Gap toward Red Clay, had already turned it.

So I rode forward to Ringgold in person, and found the enemy had already fallen back to Tunnel Hill.

He was already out of the valley of the Chickamauga, and on ground whence the waters flow to the Coosa.