. Young folk's history of the war for the union . foot of Mission-ary Ridge. Under the lead ofSheridan, Wood, and Baird, themen charged in a line. TheConfederates in the rifle-pitsdid not wait for their coming,but swarmed out and scamperedup the hills. The Union mencould not be held back, butpushed on steadily through astorm of canister from the bat-teries above and of bullets fromrifle-pits in their front. Up thesteep side of the ridge, which isabout three fourths of a milehigh at this place, the men ad-vanced with as much coolness as if on drill. But when within a hundred yards offederates t
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . foot of Mission-ary Ridge. Under the lead ofSheridan, Wood, and Baird, themen charged in a line. TheConfederates in the rifle-pitsdid not wait for their coming,but swarmed out and scamperedup the hills. The Union mencould not be held back, butpushed on steadily through astorm of canister from the bat-teries above and of bullets fromrifle-pits in their front. Up thesteep side of the ridge, which isabout three fourths of a milehigh at this place, the men ad-vanced with as much coolness as if on drill. But when within a hundred yards offederates they rushed forward with a whoop and aleaping over embankments, ditches, everything in their way,sprang into the enemys works with the cry of Chickamauga!The Confederates gave way before them, and into the gap thusmade the Union men poured as they came up the hill. Manyprisoners and many pieces of artillery were taken. The cap-tured guns were at once turned on the flying enemy, who scat-tered in all directions. General Bragg rode among them, try-. PULPIT KOCK. the Con-yell, and 884 CHICKAMAUGA.—CUATTANOOGA.—KNOXVILLE. [1863. ing to stay the rout. In vain he waved his sword and cried tothem, Here is your commander! The men, who had no con-fidence in him, answered with one of the slang expressions usedin the army, Heres your mule! and Bragg had to turn hishorse and ride down the ridge among his fleeing troops. Sher-man also drove the enemy in his front, and by evening thewhole Confederate army, forced from all its strong positions,was in full retreat. Bragg fell back to Dalton, Georgia, where he established afortified camp. He was much blamed by the Southern people for his bad managementof the campaign, and hiscommand was soon aftergiven to General J. E,Johnston. But PresidentDavis, who was a strongfriend of Braggs, calledhim to Eichmond andmade him general underhim of all the Confeder-ate armies. The Confederate lossesin the battle of Chatta-nooga were about tenthousand men,
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