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William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil., Chapter 6: (search)
welfth corps from the army of the Potomac, under the command of General Hooker, and he was assured of the fullest support by the government. . With wondrous energy, aided by his able subordinates; Thomas and Hooker, he had changed the aspect of affairs, loosened the clutch of the eew order of things in the army now, and especially at the west; and Hooker, who had chafed at the delays and want of vigor in the Peninsular cd success of the Union army. The reader knows the story well,--how Hooker on the right, climbing the precipitous sides of Lookout Mountain, dof operations, from Lookout Mountain on the right, down whose sides Hooker was driving the rebel left, to the extreme of Missionary Ridge on tr, Grant quietly but keenly watched the tide of battle, waiting for Hooker to get into the designated position, when he might order the attackopportunity for which he laid his plans, without waiting longer for Hooker, ordered the assault on the enemy's weakened centre. The troops ea