He had his own corps (the Twenty-third), composed of eleven thousand and seventy-five infantry and eight hundred and eighty-five artillery, with McCook's broken division of cavalry, seventeen hundred and fifty-four men and horses.

For this purpose I also placed the Fourteenth Corps (Palmer) under his orders.

This corps numbered at the time seventeen thousand two hundred and eighty-eight infantry and eight hundred and twenty-six artillery; but General Palmer claimed to rank General Schofield in the date of his commission as major-general, and denied the latter's right to exercise command over him.

General Palmer was a man of ability, but was not enterprising.

His three divisions were compact and strong, well commanded, admirable on the defensive, but slow to move or to act on the offensive.