...aissance the plan agreed upon was for Hooker to cross at Bridgeport to the south side of the river with all the force that could be spared from the railroad, and most on the main wagon road by way of Whitesides to Wauhatchie, in Lookout Valley. Maj Gen. J M Palmer was to proceed by the only practicable route north of the river from his position opposite Chattanooga to a point on the north bank of the ri...