and placed on the banks of the Tennessee River, at Bridgeport, without an accident or detention. During the following month, on October 29, Howard's two divisions were ordered to support the XII Corps at the Battle of Wauhatchie, opening the supply lines to the besieged city of Chattanooga. Arriving there, Col. Orland Smith's Brigade of von Steinwehr's Division charged up a steep hill in the face of the enemy, receiving but not returning the fire, and drove James Longstreet's veterans out of their entrenchments, using the bayonet alone. Some of the regiments in this affair suffered a severe loss. Still, their extraordinary gallantry won extravagant expressions of praise from various generals high in rank, including General Ulysses S. Grant. A part of the XI Corps was also actively engaged at Missionary Ridge, where it cooperated with William T. Sherman's forces on the left. After this battle, it was ordered to East Tennessee for the relief of Knoxville, a campaign whose hardships and privations exceeded anything within the previous experience of the command. In April 1864, the two divisions of the XI Corps were broken up and transferred to the newly formed XX Corps, which was put under Hooker's Command. General Howard was assigned to the command of the IV Corps and was promoted to the command of the Army of the Tennessee when James B. McPherson was killed at the Battle of Atlanta. Hooker was enraged by Howard's promotion (because he thought he deserved it himself and never forgave Howard for what happened at Chancellorsville) and resigned in protest. Hooker was replaced by Henry Slocum. Command history * Corps assigned to the Army of the Cumberland; other entries assigned to the Army of the Potomac References Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, . Fox, William F., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, reprinted by Morningside Bookshop, Dayton, Ohio, 1993, . Schurz, Carl, Reminiscences, 3 vols., New York: McClure Publ. Co., 1907. In Volume II, Chapter VIII, Carl Schurz details his experiences with the Eleventh Corps. Further reading Pula, James S. Under the Crescent Moon with the XI Corps in the Civil War. Vol. 1, From the Defenses of Washington to Chancellorsville, 1862–1863. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2017. . 11 1862 establishments in the United States Military units and formations established in 1862 Military units and formations disestablished in