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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brown's Ferry , seizure of. (search)
Brown's Ferry, seizure of.
Gen. G. W. F. Smith undertook to open a more direct way for supplies for the National troops at Chattanooga (q. v.). In cooperation with Hooker's advance on Wauhatchie, he sent General Hazen from Chattanooga, with 1,800 men in bateaux, to construct a pontoon bridge below.
These floated noiselessly and undiscerned in the night (Oct. 26-27, 1863) down the Tennessee River, past the point of Lookout Mountain.
along a line of Confederate pickets 7 miles in length.
They landed at Brown's Ferry, on the south side, captured the pickets there, and seized a low range of hills that commanded Lookout Valley.
Another force, 1,200 strong, under General Turchin, had moved down the north bank of the river to the ferry at about the same time; and by ten o'clock a pontoon bridge was laid, and a strong abatis for defence was constructed.
The Confederates, bewildered, withdrew up the valley.
Before night the left of Hooker's line rested on Smith's right at the pontoo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chattanooga , abandonment of. (search)
Chattanooga, abandonment of.
In 1863 the Army of the Cumberland, under Rosecrans, after crossing the Cumberland Mountains in pursuit of the Confederates under Bragg, was stretched along the Tennessee River from a point above Chattanooga 100 miles westward.
Rosecrans determined to cross that stream at different points, and, closing around Chattanooga, attempts to crush or starve the Confederate army there.
General Hazen was near Harrison's, above Chattanooga (Aug. 20). He had made slow marches, displaying camp-fires at different points, and causing the fifteen regiments of his command to appear like the advance of an immense army.
On the morning of Aug. 21 National artillery under Wilder, planted on the mountain-side across the river, opposite Chattanooga, sent screaming shells over that town and among Bragg's troops.
The latter was startled by a sense of immediate danger; and when, soon afterwards, Generals Thomas and McCook crossed the Tennessee with their corps and took p
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Foote , Andrew Hull 1806 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Forrest , Nathan Bedford 1821 -1877 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), French forts in America . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grant , Ulysses Simpson (search)
Henry, Fort
An important Confederate fortification at a bend of the Tennessee River, where it approaches the Cumberland River within about 12 miles, on the right bank, and on a high hill opposite Fort Hickman.
At the beginning of February, 1862, a land force under General Grant, and a flotilla of gunboats under Commodore Foote, were sent to capture these two forts.
They appeared about 2 miles below Fort Henry on Feb. 3.
That fort was armed with seventeen great guns, twelve of which swept the river, and the garrison and troops encamped outside of the fort numbered less than 3,000.
These were commanded by General Tilghman, of Maryland, a graduate of West Point Academy.
Foote placed four of his iron-clad gunboats in position to bombard the fort, while two of his unarmored vessels fished up torpedoes with which the Confederates had strewn the river bottom.
Some of the troops went up the left side of the river to silence the guns of Fort Hieman, when the garrison fled.
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