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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 27: Chattanooga and the battle of Missionary Ridge (search)
good morning and turned back to join my headquarters and Thomas's forces near Orchard Knob. Now consider that Sherman had four bodies of men abreast, and not connected except by the long line of skirmishers which covered this whole front. Theyskirmishers and all-prepared to go up the ridge or to skirt along its side slopes. Thus these resolute men set out to perform the part allotted to them — a part, as it proved, next to the impossible, because nature, aided by the Confederate General Pat Cleburne, who guarded Bragg's right flank, had made some of these crags impregnable. Hooker and his men had already fought above the clouds and unfurled the emblem of a free country to the breeze on the most prominent rock of Lookout Mountain; Sherman and his divisions had toiled and fought with more vigor the second day than the first, amid unheard — of ruggedness and against odds. It was reserved by Providence to Thomas and his army, already four times depleted, November 25, 1863, to st