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The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Army of Tennessee. Missionary Ridge, Nov. 24th--. (search)
rate officers in command on the mountain. Our forces had been much weakened the night before by the withdrawal of Walker's division, which was sent to the right, leaving only Stevenson's and Cheatham's divisions behind, both under command of Gen. Stevenson. Gen. Cheatham arrived on the ground late in the afternoon, having just returned to the army. Up to the time of his return his division was under the command of Gen. Jackson, the senior brigadier in the division. It was thought that these te been sufficient to hold the position against a largely-superior force; but not so. The Confederates were steadily pushed back from the moment the infantry opened fire until late in the evening, when Gen. Breckinridge went to the assistance of Stevenson with a brigade. The Federal, who had driven the Confederates slowly around the north face of the mountain to Craven's house, and thence around almost to the road which leads to the top, were, in their turn, forced back after night some four or