. Echoes of the civil war as I hear them [electronic resource] . my of the Tennessee joined us—Grant had command of all the forces—Grant, Thomas, Sherman,Sheridan, Hooker and Howard, all present—The author re-lieved of staff duty at his own request—Returned to the com-mand of his regiment then stationed on Lookout Mountain—Thegeniality of General R. W. Johnson—A visit to the battle-field ofChickamauga—Some descriptions of Lookout Mountain—The re-cruits of the Twenty-First. That part of the army that remained on the field of Chick-amauga with General Thomas until the evening of Septem-ber 20, 1
. Echoes of the civil war as I hear them [electronic resource] . my of the Tennessee joined us—Grant had command of all the forces—Grant, Thomas, Sherman,Sheridan, Hooker and Howard, all present—The author re-lieved of staff duty at his own request—Returned to the com-mand of his regiment then stationed on Lookout Mountain—Thegeniality of General R. W. Johnson—A visit to the battle-field ofChickamauga—Some descriptions of Lookout Mountain—The re-cruits of the Twenty-First. That part of the army that remained on the field of Chick-amauga with General Thomas until the evening of Septem-ber 20, 1863, fell back to Rossville that night. The nextmorning a new line was formed across the hills covering thegap. General Baird asked me to form the division. I donot remember the hour I commenced to execute the order,but it was in the morning. I did not know then how badlythe rebel army was used up and as our division was to oc-cupy a line that appeared to be the key to the positionstraddling the road running through the gap, I was intensely 176. Chattanooga—Lookout Mountain—Missionary Courtesy of General II. V. Iiovnton. AT CHATTANOOGA 177 anxious to get the division into position as soon as mind was completely absorbed in the work. A greatdeal of riding had to be done. The division had notcamped together the night before, and was very much•scattered. When the line was finally formed, I said to my-self, It must now be about ten oclock a. m. I looked atmy watch. It was 3 p. m. When the thoughts are socompletely concentrated on a single object, one takes no ac-count of time. What is called time, is merely a subjectivecondition. Objectively, there is no time. In the workingsof the forces of nature, time, as man has it artificially ar-ranged, is not an element. We remained in line at Rossville until the morning of the22d. At the time I was placing the first division in battleline, on the morning of the 21st, I was unaware that othertroops
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