. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . PREPARING FOR PERMANENT OCCrPATlDX Bragg was now definitely driven from Tennessee, and his beaten army la.\ in winter quarters at Dalton, Georgia, holding the rail-road to Atlanta. Longstreet had failed at Knoxville, and after a winter of hardship in the unfriendly mountain regions was to makehis way hack to Lee for the final struggle. This bridge was the last link in tlie ecmneetion by rail between Xashville and Chatta-nooga, and the Federal engineers at onee set about rebuilding it so that trains might be run into the latter city
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . PREPARING FOR PERMANENT OCCrPATlDX Bragg was now definitely driven from Tennessee, and his beaten army la.\ in winter quarters at Dalton, Georgia, holding the rail-road to Atlanta. Longstreet had failed at Knoxville, and after a winter of hardship in the unfriendly mountain regions was to makehis way hack to Lee for the final struggle. This bridge was the last link in tlie ecmneetion by rail between Xashville and Chatta-nooga, and the Federal engineers at onee set about rebuilding it so that trains might be run into the latter city, which was now made. MILITARY RAILROAD BRIDGE OVER CHATTANOOGA CREEK, DECEMBER, 1SG3 a military post. The original structure was destroyed by Bragg September 7, 1803, when lie willidrew from Chattanooga, outflankedby Rosecrans. Grant had saved the Army of the Cumberland and Chattanooga, and Sherman had pressed furwarfl to the relief ofBumside at Knoxville, dri\-ing off Longstreet. Chattanooga and Knoxville, now occupied by the Federals, wctc tu become new basesfor still greater and more aggressive operations by Sherman against the Confederate army in Georgia the follow lug year.
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