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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
rilliant and difficult task there were needed numerous and tried troops inured to rapid marches, because they might have upon them for a few hours the entire army of the enemy. Grant had reserved this task for the Fifteenth corps. On the 31st of October, Sherman's four divisions, with their artillery, had on their rolls an effective force of twenty thousand five hundred and sixty-four officers and men present. Consequently, he could place in line at least eighteen thousand men. A division nate to Sherman's movements. Although united under one chief, these forces were composed of two very distinct elements. One part was the old Army of the Cumberland, distributed among the Fourth and the Fourteenth corps: it contained on the 31st of October an effective force of 47,595 combatants. But the despatch of a division of the Fourteenth corps to Sherman, the absence of the First division of the Fourth corps, a brigade of which occupied Bridgeport, while the two others were at Shell M