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nnessee and fortified in rifle trenches. By twelve o'clock M. the pontoon bridges across the Tennessee and the Chickamauga were laid, and the remainder of Sherman's force crossed over, and at half-past 12 P. M. the whole of the northern extremity of Missionary Ridge to near the railroad tunnel was in Sherman's possession. During the night he fortified the position thus secured, making it equal, it not superior, in strength to that held by the enemy. By three o'clock of the same day Colonel Long, with his brigade of cavalry, of Thomas's army, crossed to the south side of the Tennessee and to the north of South Chickamauga creek, and made a raid on the enemy's lines of communication. He burned Tyner's Station, with many stores, cut the railroad at Cleveland captured nearly a hundred wagons and over two hundred prisoners. His own loss was small. Hooker carried out the part assigned him for this day equal to the most sanguine expectations. --With Geary's division, (Twelfth cor