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in search of the bodies of the dead.1 We passed through Rossville Gap, and traveled the Lafayette road, visiting on the way the position of General Thomas, near Kelly's Farm,2 and Lee and Gordon's Mill.3 We rode on to Crawfish Spring,4 and there, in the cool shadow of the trees, by the side of that wonderful fountain of sweet water, we lunched and rested.
Then we returned by another road a part of the way, but again passed through Ross's Gap, when the sketch of the eminent chief's house on page 126 was made.
We returned to Chatta-nooga in time to make
a drawing of the superb block-house there, near the railway station, the most extensive and beautiful of any built by the National troops.
On Saturday we ascended Lookout Mountain by the zigzag road from Chattanooga Valley, a part of the way on foot, and a part in an ambulance kindly furnished us, with horses and a boy-driver, by Captain Wainright, the
post quartermaster.
It was a slow, tedious, and wearisome journey, and it was late in the afternoon when we reached good quarters at the hotel in Summertown,5 on the crest of the mountain, where we spent the night, and a greater portion of the next day. We had time before twilight to walk out
1 The bodies were buried here and there, all over the battle-field, where they fell. The method pursued by Mr Van Horne in searching for them, was to have one hundred men move in a line abreast, about three feet apart, through the woods and over the cleared ground where the battle was fought, first marking the graves found, and then disinterring the remains. Having thus swept in one direction, they wheeled, making the man next the space just gone over, the pivot, and in the same manner moving in the other direction. In this way the entire battle-field was traversed.
2 See page 134.
3 See page 134.
4 See page 133.
5 See map on page 168.
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