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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 26: transferred to the West; battle of Wauhatchie (search)
There was little present danger of losing this important advantage by assault or by battle; but Bragg had seized the mountains which hemmed in Chattanooga, the range above (that is, Missionary Ridgeility had become waste and barren, like the battle grounds of Virginia. We thought of Buell and Bragg, of George H. Thomas and Van Dorn, and of other opposing leaders, as we coursed along through thKentucky and her proud Bowling Green. For Stone River had been fought, and Rosecrans had chased Bragg beyond the Tennessee. So we went peacefully, train after train, through Nashville, Murfreesborohe Tennessee to Chattanooga. By this journey he set in motion the entire fall campaign against Bragg. At last we were escaping from this dangerous soil; from the old camps of the Confederates; fo the holding of Lookout Valley, and he further desired to cut off and catch a small force which Bragg had been keeping on the Tennessee River. Those were the hostiles who had been so enterprising
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 27: Chattanooga and the battle of Missionary Ridge (search)
ed from other sources. Our dispatch came from Bragg directly, brought in by a flag of truce. It ws he read the message, and said: It means that Bragg is intending to run away. Longstreet's depaf the ridge, called Orchard Knob. Confederate Bragg held this eminence as an outpost, and had a li was evidently not prepared for, and, indeed, Bragg already had enough line to hold with a small asaw it. At the time he believed himself nearer Bragg's right than he really was. The Missionary Rid Confederate General Pat Cleburne, who guarded Bragg's right flank, had made some of these crags ime General Breckinridge, who that day commanded Bragg's left, had greatly bothered Hooker's men, bute him. Now was the fullness of battle time. Bragg was up there with a comparatively short line. ascending in that quarter. The Confederate Chief Bragg himself, in the center, like an elephant bese, the numerous guns from the crest all along Bragg's formidable front, opened their frightful mou[11 more...]