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Lookout Mountain, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
retreat into Chattanooga abandonment of Lookout mountain investment of Chattanooga sufferings of who followed Thomas rapidly on the 21st. Lookout mountain, on the west, is twenty-two hundred feet portance, Rosecrans withdrew the force on Lookout mountain. From that moment the Army of the Cumberar. . . . . If you reoccupy the passes of Lookout mountain, which should never have been given up, ybsolutely enclosed the national camp, and Lookout mountain, like a gigantic jailer, stood guard belon. This point runs out immediately under Lookout mountain; and, at its narrowest part, about three aced to command the roads leading, around Lookout mountain, to the enemy's camps in Chattanooga valld Hooker threatened the rebel position on Lookout mountain. Horses and ammunition were hurried at oe enemy who ventured to threaten him from Lookout mountain and Missionary ridge; and, not only to re to Knoxville. Sherman's advance reached Lookout mountain to-day. Movements will progress, threat[4 more...]
McMinnville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
can support each other. It is better that you should be forced from the eastern end of the valley than from the west. Thomas is in no condition to move from his present position. On the 31st, three days before the movement was suggested to Longstreet, Grant informed Burnside: It is reported, on the authority of a Union man, that a large force of Bragg's army is moving towards you. Again, on the 1st of November: Should the enemy break through below Kingston, move in force to Sparta and McMinnville, and hang on to him with all your force, and such as I can send you from Bridgeport and Stevenson, until he is beaten and turned back. On the 5th, Longstreet's movement having actually begun the day before, Grant said to Burnside: I will endeavor, from here, to bring the enemy back from your right flank as soon as possible. Should you discover him leaving, you should annoy him all you can with your cavalry, and in fact with all the troops you can bring to bear. Sherman's advance will b
Trenton, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
certainly can detain Longstreet in the Tennessee valley, until we can make such moves, here, as will entirely free him from present dangers. I have asked him if he could hold the Knoxville and Clinton line for one week; if so, we can make moves here, that will save all danger in East Tennessee. Sherman is now at Bridgeport. He will commence moving to-morrow or next day. Sherman is now at Bridgeport. He will commence moving tomorrow or next day, throwing one brigade from Whiteside into Trenton, thus threatening the enemy's left flank. The remainder of his force will pass over by Kelly's ferry evading view from Lookout, and march up to the mouth of Chickamauga. Pontoons are made and making, to throw across at that point, over which it is intended that Sherman's force, and one division of Thomas's, shall pass. This force will attack Missionary ridge, with the left flank of Thomas supporting, from here. In the mean time, Hooker will attack Lookout, and carry it if possible. If
Whiteside, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ngly: Burnside certainly can detain Longstreet in the Tennessee valley, until we can make such moves, here, as will entirely free him from present dangers. I have asked him if he could hold the Knoxville and Clinton line for one week; if so, we can make moves here, that will save all danger in East Tennessee. Sherman is now at Bridgeport. He will commence moving to-morrow or next day. Sherman is now at Bridgeport. He will commence moving tomorrow or next day, throwing one brigade from Whiteside into Trenton, thus threatening the enemy's left flank. The remainder of his force will pass over by Kelly's ferry evading view from Lookout, and march up to the mouth of Chickamauga. Pontoons are made and making, to throw across at that point, over which it is intended that Sherman's force, and one division of Thomas's, shall pass. This force will attack Missionary ridge, with the left flank of Thomas supporting, from here. In the mean time, Hooker will attack Lookout, and carry it if
Abingdon, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
land and Sweetwater. At the same time, Halleck, who had always felt the greatest uneasiness about Burnside, telegraphed to Grant that the rebels had sent a corps of twenty thousand or twenty-five thousand men into East Tennessee, by way of Abingdon, Virginia. As Burnside will be obliged to move all his forces up the valley, you must guard against Bragg's army getting into East Tennessee, above Chattanooga. But, Grant had already foreseen this emergency, and replied: I have sent orders to Shermthe cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland, east of Bear creek. The possibility of the enemy's breaking through our lines east of this, and present inability to follow him from here, if he should, is the cause of this. The rebel movement from Abingdon proved not to be important, but that from Bragg was more threatening; the column dispatched to Cleveland and towards Loudon was promptly reported to Grant, who announced it to Halleck, on the 1st of November, and at the same time remarked: At pr
Chattanooga Creek (United States) (search for this): chapter 12
oint of Lookout mountain, threw shells into Rosecrans's camp. He fortified himself upon the hills, and his outworks reached a mile from their base, where the pickets of the two armies were within hail of each other; both drawing water from Chattanooga creek. After the first few days, the roads on the north side of the Tennessee became so bad, by reason of the fall rains, that it was impossible for the supply-trains from Bridgeport to cross the mountains. The whole command was put on half raruns out immediately under Lookout mountain; and, at its narrowest part, about three miles below the mouth of Lookout creek, Brown's ferry is situated. Moccasin point was still in the hands of the national army, but the opposite bank, from Chattanooga creek to Kelly's ferry, was occupied by the rebels. A sharp range of hills, whose base is washed by the Tennessee, extends along the southern shore, below the mouth of Lookout river, and is broken at Brown's ferry by a narrow gorge, through whic
Chattanooga Valley (United States) (search for this): chapter 12
an open road to Chattanooga, when his forces should arrive in Lookout valley. As the rebels held the north end of Lookout valley with a brigade of troops, as well as the road leading around the foot of the mountain from their main camp in Chattanooga valley, they would have had but little difficulty in concentrating a sufficient force to defeat Hooker and drive him back. To prevent this, the seizure of the range of hills at the mouth of Lookout valley, and covering the Brown's ferry road, wasif a battle became inevitable. Positions were taken, from which the troops could not have been driven except by vastly superior forces; and artillery was placed to command the roads leading, around Lookout mountain, to the enemy's camps in Chattanooga valley. On the morning of the 26th, Hooker crossed the Tennessee, by the pontoon bridge at Bridgeport, with the greater part of the Eleventh corps, under Major-General Howard, and a portion of the Twelfth corps, under Brigadier-General Geary.
Danville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
berland in steamers, the Louisville road must send at least forty car-loads of provisions daily, besides quartermaster's stores. There was a deficiency of steamers and of locomotives, and, accordingly, Grant said to Burnside: If you have any steamers, I think you had better protect the pilot and engine from sharp-shooters, by case-mating with oak plank, and send them down here; while, to McPherson, now in command at Vicksburg, he said: Send without delay, via the Tennessee river to Danville, Tennessee, all the locomotives at Vicksburg, with the exception of two, and all the cars, with the exception of ten. Let the locomotives and cars be the best you have. They are required for immediate use. To Anderson, the railroad superintendent: There are now six bridges at Louisville, belonging to government, ready made, that can be brought forward. I have ordered three locomotives and all the cars, but ten, from the southern road, Vicksburg; and again: Those ordered by Colonel Parsons, f
East Chickamauga Creek (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
d by intervals of nearly twenty miles; the extreme right of Rosecrans was forty miles from the left of his army, with almost impenetrable mountains between. While in this position, he was threatened by Bragg, but got his forces together at Chickamauga creek by the 19th of September, although with infinite difficulty. Here Bragg attacked, and after two days fighting, succeeded in piercing the national centre, and demolishing the right wing of the army. Rosecrans himself hurried to Chattanoogae out in company with Grant, Thomas, and other officers, to the hills on the north bank of the Tennessee, from which could be seen the camps of the enemy compassing Chattanooga, and the line of Missionary ridge, with its eastern terminus on Chickamauga creek, the point which Sherman was expected to take, and hold, and fortify. A mighty amphitheatre, where the actors were nearly ready to assume their parts, with distant mountains for spectators, while cloud-capped hills, and valleys shrouded in
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
from Memphis and Charleston and Richmond and Nashville and Atlanta meet, a town sprang up, of cours miles to the right, where the railroad from Nashville strikes the Tennessee, and formed his solitated from Louisville, by rail. He arrived at Nashville the same night, and, at half-past 11, he telg was reduced to eight miles. The road to Nashville was thus opened in five days after Grant's acentre; don't hesitate. By your presence at Nashville you will unite all discordant elements, and and may break through our lines and move on Nashville, in which event your troops are the only forion of Sherman's command will remain on the Nashville and Decatur road, till that is finished. With two roads from Nashville, I think there can be no difficulty about supplies. He now directed Busked: Have you sent any stores via river, to Nashville? I wish you to send all you can, while the is of vast importance that the railroad from Nashville to Decatur should be opened as soon as possi[15 more...]
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