Identifier: 02351883.3225.emory.edu
Title: History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 (electronic resource)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Belknap, Charles Eugene, 1846-1929
Subjects: Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863 Missionary Ridge, Battle of, Tenn., 1863
Publisher: Lansing, Mich. : R. Smith Print. Co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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blue range, and the highest peak of which is not lessthan one hundred and twenty miles from where you stand. A single line of railway stretches along through valley, ravine and tunnel,rusty and unused, but man made the railway, an insignificant thread; whileGod made the river, the valleys, and the mountains, amidst which the sol-diers wearing the blue and the gray were but actors in the tragedy of war. Two fifths of the men of Braggs army had been killed or wounded beforethe Union army advanced from the battlefield to Chattanooga. The non-combatants of the town, in great alarm, had taken flight across the river, orhad sought refuge in their cellars from the danger of an impending battle.Every church, public building and available house had been taken for hospitalpurposes, for more than nine thousand of our wounded soldiers filled the town. The divisions were no sooner in the positions assigned them, when the gunswere stacked, and ax, pick and spade were grasped. Day and night the work
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■J A < XH - ►J HISTORY OF MICHIGAN ORGANIZATIONS. 175 of fortification went on. Trees were felled, houses were torn down, trenchi-swere dug, epaulements for batteries rose from the ground in a single night;the hills from their glorious wealth of trees became frowning forts and breast-works impregnable. Looking from the signal stations on the mountains intothe valleys below, the boys in blue looked like myriads of great ants bur-rowing in the ground and making hills of dirt. The general commandingwith his staff, rides along the lines and the soldiers cheer him with the spiritof victors. Prom Cameron Hill one could see off to the south, the Confederate Army asit swarmed through Rossville Gap and spreading along the crest of Mis-sionary Ridge. Across the valley in great clouds of dust, batteries ofartillery galloped in the direction of Lookout Mountain. And other cloudsof dust marked the advance of unseen foes seeking positions of vantage.The Confederate Army was on its feet again

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