. Sherman and his campaigns: a military biography . to my commandfor the patience, cheerfulness, and courage which officers andmen have displayed throughout, in battle, on the march, andin camp. For long periods, without regular rations or sup-plies of any kind, they have marched through mud and overrocks, sometimes barefooted, without a murmur, without amoments rest. After a march of over four hundred miles,without stop for three successive nights, we crossed the Ten-nessee, fought our part of the battle of Chattanooga, pursuedthe enemy out of Tennessee, and then turned more than onehundred m
. Sherman and his campaigns: a military biography . to my commandfor the patience, cheerfulness, and courage which officers andmen have displayed throughout, in battle, on the march, andin camp. For long periods, without regular rations or sup-plies of any kind, they have marched through mud and overrocks, sometimes barefooted, without a murmur, without amoments rest. After a march of over four hundred miles,without stop for three successive nights, we crossed the Ten-nessee, fought our part of the battle of Chattanooga, pursuedthe enemy out of Tennessee, and then turned more than onehundred miles north, and compelled Longstreet to raise thesiege of ELnoxville, which gave so much anxiety to the wholecountry. It is hard to realize the importance of these events withoutrecalling the memory of the general feeling which pervaded allminds at Chattanooga prior to our arrival. I cannot speak ofthe Fifteenth Army Corps without a seeming vanity, but as Iam no longer its commander, I assert that there is no better jTHEKEWYOPf^-^PUBLIC, LIBRAE ^. ^Ui^^x^ C B Richardson, Publishec THE RELIEF OF KNOXVILLE. 153 body of soldiers in America than it, or wlio have done more orbetter service. I wish all to feel a just pride in its real General Howard and his command, to General Jefferson and his, I am more than usually indebted for the intelli-gence of commanders and fidehty of command. The brigadeof Colonel Buschbeck, belonging to the Eleventh Corps, whichwas the first to come out of Chattanooga to my flank, foughtat the Tvinnel Hill in connection with General Ewiugs divi-sion, and displayed a courage almost amounting to rashness :following the enemy almost to the tunnel gorge, it lost manyvaluable lives, prominent among them Lieutenant-ColonelTaft, spoken of as a most gallant soldier. In General Howard throughout I found a polished andChristian gentleman, exhibiting the highest and most chival-rous traits of the soildier. General Davis handled his division with art
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