Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin Chickamauga, Mitchell ya jagoranci brigade karkashin James B. Steedman wanda ya isa marigayi a rana ta biyu kuma ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen taimakawa George H. Thomas a rike da matsayinsa a kan Horsehoe Ridge. A yakin Missionary Ridge kusa da Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mitchell ya goyi bayan babban janar William T. Sherman. Daga bisani ya koma Ambrose Burnside ta taimako a lokacin Siege na Knoxville. A lokacin yakin Atlanta na 1864, Mitchell ya jagoranci ci gaba a kan makiyan abokan gaba a yakin Rocky Face Ridge. Rundunarsa ta sha wahala sosai a yakin Resaca
kuma ya taka muhimmiyar rawa a yaƙe-yaƙe na Dallas da New Hope Church. Tsohonsa na 113 ya rasa sama da mutane dari a harin da aka kai a kan Kennesaw Mountain. Mitchell ya ba da rahoto ga Thomas kuma ya dauki umurnin XIV Corps a lokacin yakin Nashville da kuma bin bin sojojin sojojin Confederate na John Bell Hood.