The road between Nashville and Chattanooga could easily have been put in repair by other troops, so that communication with the North would have been opened in a short time after the occupation of the place by the National troops.

If Buell had been permitted to move in the first instance, with the whole of the Army of the Ohio and that portion of the Army of the Mississippi afterwards sent to him, he could have thrown four divisions from his own command along the line of road to repair and guard it.
Granger's division was promptly sent on the 4th of September.

I was at the station at Corinth when the troops reached that point, and found General P.H.Sheridan with them.

I expressed surprise at seeing him and said that I had not expected him to go.

He showed decided disappointment at the prospect of being detained.