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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Chickamauga-letter from Captain W. N. Polk. (search)
port, where the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad crosses the Tennessee river, for purposes of observation, was retained in and around Chatthattanooga with his artillery from the heights overlooking the Tennessee river and the town. This bombardment of our position, which was intid, by a portion of Rosecrans's army at Blythe's ferry, on the Tennessee river, opposite the mouth of the Hiwassee, he was ordered to fall banear Caperton's ferry reported that the enemy was crossing the Tennessee river in force at that point (Caperton's ferry); that on Saturday, tgraphical view is necessary. Chattanooga is situated on the Tennessee river at the mouth of Chattanooga valley — a valley following the coch, with the Chattanooga creek, discharges its waters into the Tennessee river — the first above and the latter below the town of Chattanoogaentre, but had been left in the Sequatchie valley, crossed the Tennessee river at the mouth of Battle creek, and moved upon Chattanooga. Maj
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Raid of Forrest's cavalry on the Tennessee river in 1864. (search)
Raid of Forrest's cavalry on the Tennessee river in 1864. By Captain John W. Morton, Chief of Artillery in Forrest's Cavalry Corps [Read before the Louisville Branch of the Southern Historical Society.] Two batteries of the battalion of artillery, Forrest's Cavalry Corps, which I had the honor to command, namely, Walton's and Morton's, the former composed of two ten-pounder and two twenty-pounder Parrott guns which had been captured from the enemy by Forrest's cavalry, and the latter cow the mouth of Sandy, we selected the old Confederate Fort Heiman and Paris Landing and the mouth of Sandy, the former place some five miles distant by river from the latter, as the most available from which to obstruct the navigation of the Tennessee river and cut off communication with Johnsonville. These points were admirably suited to entrap any passing boat from above or below. Lieutenant W. O. Hunter's section — Walton's battery — of twenty-pounder Parrotts under the personal command
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Battle of Johnsonville. (search)
: Gentlemen,--Our last paper brought Forrest on his Tennessee river raid to Paris Landing, where, November 1, our fleet, cville. The announcement of Hood's army crossing the Tennessee river at Florence, Alabama, on his happily conceived, but ilssing of the Memphis and Clarksville railroad over the Tennessee river, the gunboat and transport anchoring under shelter of brigade, then at Fort Heiman, on the west bank of the Tennessee river. Until this time I had been continuously employed in al Lyon's brigade of cavalry concealed on the bank of the Tennessee; a portion of my command had been detailed to assist in wsix-inch Parrott guns sent from Mobile to blockade the Tennessee river. At this time I had not heard Johnsonville whispered,ced in the pilot house in case of injury to my regular Tennessee-river pilot. I could not hear him speak, the din and uproarng rain. I approached him and reported: General, your Tennessee-river fleet is no more. He replied: Don't you think you gav