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t in height, intervening. This movement rendered it necessary for Gen. Bragg to retire from Chattanooga and move his forces in the direction of Rome also, in order to strike the enemy as he debouched from the mountains into the open country. Gen. Wheeler was accordingly ordered to watch carefully the mountain passes, and General Forrest to cover the front of our advance. The army moved on the evening of the 7th and morning of the 8th of September, in two columns, Gens. Polk and Hill on the die left of Buckner, and extending toward Glass's Mills, on the Chickamauga; Hill to bring up the rear, moving in the direction of Lee & Gordons's Mills, and watching the mountain passes on the left; Forrest to cover the front and right flank, and Wheeler to pass to the left of Polk and protect his flank. Gen. Bushrod Johnson's brigade was at Ringgold, to which point the reinforcements as they arrived at Atlanta were directed. These orders were executed on the afternoon of the 17th, at which ti
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