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The Daily Dispatch: May 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
tance. This, by the use of pontoon bridges at Chattanooga and Brown's Ferry, would secure to us by the north bank of the river across Moccasin Point, a shorter one by which to reinforce our troops in Lookout Valley, than the narrow and tortuous road around the foot of Lookout Mountain afforded the enemy for reinforcement. The force speeled for this expedition consisted of five thousand men, under command of General Smith, Chief Engineer, eighteen hundred of which, under Brig. Gen. H. B Hazen, in sixty pontoon boats, containing thirty armed men each, floated quietly from Chattanooga past the enemy's pickets, to the foot of Lookout Mountain, on the night of the 27th of October, landed on the south side of the river at Brown's Ferry, surprised the enemy's pickets stationed there, and seized the hills covering the ferry, without the loss of a man killed, and but four or five wounded. The remainder of the force, together with the materials for a bridge, were moved by the north bank o