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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], The position of affairs before the battle of Lookout Mountain. (search)
e correctness of the judgment by which that concession was made. It is an error, too, to suppose that the mere possession of Chattanooga is the stake for which this army is contending, and the fact that the Federals may remain undisturbed there during the winter adds and subtracts nothing from our prospects of success. In truth, there are many officers who believe that we are better off where we are, with a railroad at our back, than if we were forty miles on the other side of the Tennessee river and dependent for supplies on the rugged roads and faulty wagons, which would be our bane during the winter. Finally. We have not "lost the advantages of our position." Lookout Mountain is still in our possession, and, to all intents and purposes, the lines of the army have not been changed. With this great and almost impassable wall on our left, effectually barring the advance of the enemy from that direction, and Missionary Ridge, with its steep sides, on our front, no General c