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The Daily Dispatch: November 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], The fight in-lookout Valley — Details of the engagement. (search)
its groups of men and animals, and its lines of white-topped wagons, now strung like a necklace of pearls around the bosom of the hills. The Federal had succeeded in effecting a junction with the Army of Chattanooga. The question which naturally arises is, why did not Gen. Bragg throw his army in front of the advancing columns and check the movement? The answer is in the shape of one of those stolid facts which even strategy cannot always stir. On Monday night Gen. Thomas--or perhaps Grant, for he is now in Chattanooga — crossed a force of 6,000 men, first over the Tennessee at the edge of town, then over the neck of land known as the Moccasin, and finally over the river again at Brown's Ferry, in rear of Chattanooga, where, after a brief skirmish with one of our regiments, they took possession of the hills and commenced the work of fortification. Simultaneously with this movement a column at Bridgeport, consisting of the 11th corps, Gen. Howard, and 12th corps, Gen. Slocum,
Grant'sarmy at Chattanooga have to carry their wood on pontoon bridges across the river, all the trees in and around the place having been cut down and burnt by our army while encamped there. The Rome (Ga.) Southerner learns that thirty days furloughs are being granted to the farmers in the State forces for the purpose of allowing them to sow wheat. Rev. Dr. W. A. Scott, late of California, and formerly of New Orleans, was installed pastor of the Forty second Street, Presbyterian Church, in New York, on Wednesday. Gen. Thomas, Rosecrans's successor in the command of the Army of the Cumberland, was Gen. (then Captain) Bragg's First Lieutenant in Mexico. The impressment officers seized all the cotton and woolen cloth in Lynchburg, Va., on Friday. The wife of Bishop H. Kavanaugh died at Shelbyville, Tenn, on the 7th ult.