Identifier: annalsofarmyofcu00lcfitc (find matches)
Title: Annals of the Army of the Cumberland:
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Fitch, John, fl. 1864
Subjects: United States. Army of the Cumberland Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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CHATTANOOGA TAKEN BY STRATE3T. 459 den was thus to threaten with his four brigades on the oppositeside, below and in front of that place, to mislead Bragg, themain body of the army was to march down into Georgia totwo gaps piercing Lookout Mountain, and, passing throughthem, to come in on Braggs rear. Lookout Mountain is a highrange, or spur, running back from the river, just below Chatta-nooga, into the heart of Georgia,—a hog-back ridge, so tosjjeak, terminating at the river in a steep bluff. It is of greatheight, and its descent upon either side very abrupt an^ rugged.The railroad creeps along upon a shelf cut into the solid rockunder this knob, near the waters edge, where the mountainappears to have been separated from its kindred links across theriver by the floods of the Tennessee, which for countless ageshave rolled down upon and past this barrier in resistless might.The river west of Chattanooga, in its general direction, runssouthwest. Skirting it is the Raccoon range, of w

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