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Chapter 17: Rosecrans flanks Chattanooga and Bragg Evacuates Burnside Enters East Tennessee and Buckner Joins Bragg movements of opposing armies preceding battle Longstreet Joins Bragg with his corps battle of Chickamauga Arrangement of lines of battle important part played by Kentucky officers and soldiers severe losses death of General Ben Hardin Helm and Colonel James Hewitt great Confederate victory Charles A. Dana's opinion Breckinridge, Buckner and Preston. The danger threatening Chattanooga and east Tennessee now called for the concentration of all the troops which could be made available for its defenses. Rosecrans advanced slowly and cautiously, while Bragg was busily engaged in fortifying at Chattanooga, through the months of July and August. Rosecrans, declining a direct attack, projected a heavy movement up Will's valley on the western side of Lookout mountain, threatening Rome and Bragg's communications, thus forcing the evacuation of Chatt