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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
ge of the North Chickamauga. This division had only to cross the river to come on the day after a victory to offer valuable co-operation with Grant's forces. But he thought best to deprive himself of it, and employ it to disperse the guerillas collected in the vast rectangle between McMinnville, Murfreesborough, Lebanon, and the confluence of Caney Creek with the Cumberland River; for these bands sometimes menaced the communications and the depots of the army. On the 14th of November, General Eliott, who had succeeded Mitchell in the chief command of the cavalry, went with McCook's division to establish himself at Alexandria, a town situated in the middle of that region. Later, Grant had much occasion to regret his absence. Such was the plan of attack which on the 16th of November he went to explain to his two principal lieutenants from the top of the hills that overlook the right bank of the Tennessee opposite the mouth of the South Chickamauga. Crawling from tree to tree, the