. Life and services of Gen. U. S. Grant . d been : I will hold the town till westarve. Grant now saw for himself that, unless somethingwas done immediately, the chance of starving was admirable;indeed the fearful process was already begun. The Union army had a strong position, with its flanks rest-ing on the Tennessee Kiver, near the mouth of Chattanoogaand Citico creeks. The enemy had encircled this line by tak-_ing position on the western slope of a part of MissionarylUdgc, across Chattanooga Valley, and on the top and on thenorthern end of Lookout Mountain. We were thus shut offfrom all com
. Life and services of Gen. U. S. Grant . d been : I will hold the town till westarve. Grant now saw for himself that, unless somethingwas done immediately, the chance of starving was admirable;indeed the fearful process was already begun. The Union army had a strong position, with its flanks rest-ing on the Tennessee Kiver, near the mouth of Chattanoogaand Citico creeks. The enemy had encircled this line by tak-_ing position on the western slope of a part of MissionarylUdgc, across Chattanooga Valley, and on the top and on thenorthern end of Lookout Mountain. We were thus shut offfrom all commumcation with Bridgeport by the left bank;and the river-road on the right bank was infested by his smallbands, and by sharp-shooters from the opposite bank. All supplies had to be sent by a very difficult route over theAnderson road, almost impassable, across Waldens KidgeJfrom Stevenson, Alabama, a distance of sixty or seventymiles; and the supply trains were shelled from LookcnitMountain, from the very day that Rosecrans had abandoned. Missing Pages rhese missing pages will be inserted at a future date. ^^ ^ ^/^ r ^ PC) ^
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