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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 166 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 142 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 104 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 94 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 94 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 72 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 64 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 64 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 53 1 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 52 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Wanted--1,000 negroes. (search)
f which on this side is represented to be thirteen miles from Bridgeport. It is by this route, it is believed, that the enemy would advance by the rear upon Lookout Mountain, the possession of which is an object of the greatest interest to him. It is reported that he is engaged rebuilding the bridge at Bridgeport; but neither the bridge nor the railroad thence to Chattanooga, would be of any avail to him unless he could wrest Lookout Mountain from us. The Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, as you are aware, runs between the Tennessee river and the mountain, which approach so close in many places that it was necessary to blow out a road-bed along the rockme horses, and then disappeared. The batteries of the enemy kept up a slow fire throughout the day yesterday. It was directed against the north face of Lookout Mountain, to wards the town, and our lines between Chattanooga creek and the mountain. A few shot were fired at other portions of the lines, but without results anyw
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Yankee view of the battle of Chickamauga. (search)
perhaps greater than our own, and we have some 1,500 prisoners. When Rosecrans commenced his movement on Chattanooga, Bragg lay there with about 25,000 men, which was amply sufficient to hold the place against any force which might attack in front, on from the north side of the Tennessee. New old Rosecrans's plan was to send Crittenden's corps down to attack Chattanooga in front, (that is, from the north side of the Tennessee river.) while he, with Thomas and McCook, should cross Lookout Mountain, and come in the rear of the town, cutting off Bragg from all reenforcements, and making him either come out on the open field, and risk all on the fate of a single battle, when he had the choice of the ground and a vastly superior army, or else lie in his entrenchments at Chattanooga and starve to death, as Pemberton did at Vicksburg. Well, just as Rosecrans had succeeded in making the movement, Joe Johnston arrived with a few thousand men from Mobile and took command, ordered the