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the crossing used for the road from Manchester to Winchester. This last point is occupied by a detachment from the enemy's troops. Jones' Ford, on the contrary, is without any protection, but the crossing is so difficult that one brigade only is able to clear it before dark. On the right, McCook, following with two divisions the route from Tullahoma to Winchester, has arrived at Rock Creek Ford, where he has met with the same difficulties encountered by Thomas. He has not been able, on the 2d, to set foot upon the left bank, that was defended only by a small body of cavalry, but on which it was hard to land on account of the rise in Elk River. It was only near to the source of this stream that the Federals have been enabled to surmount this difficulty. Turchin's Federal brigade of cavalry, proceeding on the road from Hillsborough to Hookersville, has found the ford at Morris' Ferry protected by a part of Forrest's troops. Mitchell, with his division, soon joins Turchin's command
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affair throws into a state of excitement all the Federal cavalry in Kentucky; but while the cavalry are gathering Morgan rapidly advances toward the north. On the 3d, in the afternoon, he reaches the town of Columbia, toward which Wolford, on his side, is marching. Captain Jesse M. Carter arrives first with the Union vanguard, visions of the Twentieth corps. On the same day McCook sends down into Will's Valley, Davis, whom Johnson has relieved on the summit of Raccoon Mountain. On the 3d, despite the crowding on the roads, each division makes a movement forward: on the left, Brannan and Reynolds, having effected a meeting at Shell Mound, proceed upr his successor Lieutenant-general D. H. Hill, whom we have seen figuring first in Lee's army and subsequently in North Carolina. His corps had fallen back, on the 3d, from Tyner's Station to Ringgold, after having sent a brigade of infantry to the banks of the Tennessee in order to mask this movement. Bragg's movement must in
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more than two hundred and sixteen yards of trestle-work broke down. Fortunately, at the time of the accident the bridge was free and nobody went down with it. Thanks to incessant labor, the crossing was restored in less than two days, and on the 4th, in the morning, Baird's division, followed by all the artillery and the wagons of the Fourteenth corps, filed over. Brannan and Reynolds in another direction crossed the river on the 1st of September, the one at the great bend of the Tennessee, leads to the edge of Lookout Creek. Negley toils up the slopes of Raccoon Mountain. On the right McCook's three divisions occupy the eastern declivity of that mountain and descend into Will's Valley between Trenton and Johnson's Crook. On the 4th, at the time when Baird's last troops are crossing the Tennessee, two divisions of the Fourteenth corps are near Trenton with Sheridan, and the third division bivouacs above that town, while McCook, climbing, on the right, the side of Lookout Moun
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very imprudently hurled against him. A deadly fire checks the Confederates, a desperate struggle ensues upon the bridge itself; the Unionists fire upon their adversaries at close quarters; Colonel D. W. Chenault, who leads the charge, falls riddled with bullets, together with several of his officers: the assailants are repulsed, leaving behind them about sixty men dead or wounded on the field. After this useless fight, Morgan, making a slight turn, fords the Green River and comes up, on the 5th, before the little town of Lebanon, then occupied by five hundred men of the Twentieth Kentucky regiment of infantry, under the command of Lieutenant-colonel Charles S. Hanson, brother to a Confederate general of that name killed at Murfreesborough. After an honorable resistance, Hanson, assailed on all sides in an open town, is obliged to capitulate. The attack had been a costly one: Thomas, a brother of Morgan, had been killed, and the latter, departing for the nonce from his custom of hu
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open town, is obliged to capitulate. The attack had been a costly one: Thomas, a brother of Morgan, had been killed, and the latter, departing for the nonce from his custom of humanity, treated with harshness his prisoners, whom, after all, he was constrained to release at the end of a few days, imposing upon them a parole which, as everybody knew, was not binding. He continued his march in the direction of Louisville, and, passing through Bardstown, reached, in the course of the day on the 6th, at Shepherdsville, the Nashville Railroad, which he destroyed after having pillaged a passenger-train. He was only seventeen miles distant from the great Kentucky city. Hence the Federals were making forced marches to arrive at the same time with him under its walls. Hobson's cavalry brigade, while following in Morgan's footsteps, was to serve as a nucleus to the movable troops which the telegraph would summon from every corner in Kentucky. Meantime, Judah, with three regiments and one b
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chord of the arc which Morgan had just described, went to wait for him at Litchfield. The Confederate vanguard, having reached Brandenburg in the evening of the 7th, had the good fortune to capture two large steamboats, which would enable all the cavalry quickly to cross the river. On Morgan's arrival on the 8th, in the mornincupied the outlet of the road on the north-west slope of the mountains. Shackelford went with his cavalry to flank Frazer, so as to completely surround him. On the 7th, Burnside followed him with infantry and artillery by taking as far as Morristown the railway, which the enemy had not destroyed. Thence, by a forced march of forthey found the bridge over Watauga River occupied by the enemy. Hearing of this bold dash, Jackson set out to cut off their retreat. He reached Jonesborough on the 7th. The Unionists, going back on the same train which had brought them, had passed beyond that town, but they had stopped at a short distance, thinking, no doubt, tha
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boats, which would enable all the cavalry quickly to cross the river. On Morgan's arrival on the 8th, in the morning, all was ready to transport the men and horses to the soil of Indiana. From the oceed beyond this city, near which the principal forces of the enemy are concentrating. On the 8th, in the evening, Hobson had got as far as Brandenburg, guided by the light from the burning of thon which he counted to feed his mules and horses. Every pretext stood him in good stead. On the 8th the magazines at Stevenson were full: he wanted to form an additional depot at Tracy City, where,rch in the direction of La Fayette on a dusty road and during a spell of oppressive heat. On the 8th the rearguard was leaving the works which had been so laboriously thrown up around Chattanooga: or the last three days. A like movement was simultaneously accomplished by General McCook. On the 8th he was massing his corps in the vicinity of Valley Head, and the two brigades of Carlin and Heg o
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on and Atlanta Railway. In the morning Negley was occupying Frick's Gap and Stevens' Gap; on the 9th, some time in the day, he was going beyond the slopes of Missionary Ridge and posting himself in be evacuating that place. He had immediately directed Crittenden to ascertain the fact. On the 9th, in the morning, Beatty's and Grose's brigades were climbing the acclivity of Lookout Mountain, t the twin defiles of Frick's Gap and Stevens' Gap, and at Winston's Gap—Rosecrans thought, on the 9th, only of urging them forward to catch up with his adversary, without reflecting upon the immense ed the Tennessee River and rejoined Crittenden. Wagner and Wilder had entered Chattanooga on the 9th. Minty's cavalry, which Pegram on the 8th had prevented from crossing the river at Harrison, rea Confederates were thus in force on the two routes which intersect at Davis' Cross-roads. On the 9th, in the evening, Bragg gave orders to General Hill to move on the ensuing morning Cleburne's divi
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also Hazen's brigade. The Twenty-first corps was then again complete. It began to march on the 10th, leaving Wagner's brigade at Chattanooga. But as the supply-train did not arrive before night, athe presence of forces three times as numerous as his own, could not avoid being crushed. On the 10th, in the morning, Hindman got up to Morgan's farm in the neighborhood of Davis' Cross-roads. But om being punctual at the rendezvous. Bragg did not insist. When he received Hill's reply on the 10th, at eight in the morning, he charged Buckner with his entire corps to reinforce Hindman; to do wssigned him. Palmer and Van Cleve not having been able to proceed beyond Pea-Vine Creek on the 10th, the commander of the Twenty-first corps went and placed himself at their head on the next day towo generals. Henceforth the Fourteenth and Twenty-first corps would be in juxtaposition. On the 10th, in the morning, the Twenty-first corps went back to the banks of the Chickamauga on the right of
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authority, and finally postponed the attack to the next day. However, Bragg did not have to complain of this delay: on the 11th of the month he was going to have twice the opportunity to deal his adversary a decisive blow. Instead of one division onbe traced to him. Really, instead of pressing Hindman by positive orders to attack, as he says he did, he wrote him on the 11th, at eleven o'clock in the morning, the following despatch, doubtless in reply to information given by his lieutenant: If yden, Bragg's slowness was going to surpass the imprudence of his adversaries. Having seen Negley escape from him on the 11th, the Southern general at last thought on that evening of turning back upon the Twenty-first corps, of whose position he waanger had been enabled at the beginning of September to unite these garrisons in order to bring them to Rosecrans. On the 11th he passed the Tennessee at Bridgeport with Daniel McCook's brigade and Steedman's division, which comprised two other brig
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