. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . for hasty dirt-diggers were coming to the front. The defensive warfare carried on to the end by the Con-federates in the West placed them most of the time behindtheir temjjorary or semi-permanent works. All the forts alongthe JMississipi^i were, necessarih% of the strongest character, as-suming the importance of permanent fortifications, armed withheavy guns and manned by small permanent garrisons and,during Grants and Banks campaigns, by larger garrisons,pushed in from the field. All of these stronger places had
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . for hasty dirt-diggers were coming to the front. The defensive warfare carried on to the end by the Con-federates in the West placed them most of the time behindtheir temjjorary or semi-permanent works. All the forts alongthe JMississipi^i were, necessarih% of the strongest character, as-suming the importance of permanent fortifications, armed withheavy guns and manned by small permanent garrisons and,during Grants and Banks campaigns, by larger garrisons,pushed in from the field. All of these stronger places had to betaken by the process of regular siege. When Bragg retired from JNIurfreesboro, he entrenchedseveral lines between that place and Chattanooga, but Rose-crans, by consummate strategic skill, turned him out of all ofthem without fighting serious battles. On the battlefield ofChickamauga, the infantry and artillery of Thomas wing of theFederal army stood like a rock behind entrenchments andl)arricades of earth, fence rails, and logs. Bragg, attacking [20G].
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