. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . TROOPS AT CITY POINT READY TO BE 1AKKN TO TIIK FRON 1 Hi RAIL , mvh* or neve** co. [f—19]. REVIEWS CO. THE SUPPLY ROUTE WHEN THE RAILROADS AVERE WRECKED Y\ hen the Army of the Cumberland under Rosecrans retreated from the field of Chickamauga, with 16,000 ofits 62,000 effectives killed and wounded, it concentrated at Chattanooga. The Confederates under Braggheld the south bank of the Tennessee, and from the end of the railroad at Bridgeport there was a haul ofsixty mi
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . TROOPS AT CITY POINT READY TO BE 1AKKN TO TIIK FRON 1 Hi RAIL , mvh* or neve** co. [f—19]. REVIEWS CO. THE SUPPLY ROUTE WHEN THE RAILROADS AVERE WRECKED Y\ hen the Army of the Cumberland under Rosecrans retreated from the field of Chickamauga, with 16,000 ofits 62,000 effectives killed and wounded, it concentrated at Chattanooga. The Confederates under Braggheld the south bank of the Tennessee, and from the end of the railroad at Bridgeport there was a haul ofsixty miles to Chattanooga. Twenty-six miles of railroad, including the long truss bridge across the Ten-nessee River and the trestle at Whiteside, a quarter of a mile long and one hundred and thirteen feet high, hadbeen destroyed. Rosecrans only route to supply his army was the river. It was Lieutenant-Colonel (laterBrigadier-General) William G. Le Due who saved from a freshet the first flat-bottomed boat, the Chatta-nooga, which carried 45,000 rations up to Kelleys Ferry, whence the haul was only eight miles to the Armyof the Cumberland—instead of sixty. Later more boats were built, and the railroad repaired, but i
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