. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. Confederates moving onin powerful masses, andthe Federals holding theirground with unflinching courage. After the conflict had continuedfor some hours, the national battle-line was opened by General Wood,acting under mistaken orders. The Confederate general, seeing hisadvantage, thrust forward a heavy column into the gap, cut the Unionarmy in two, and drove the shattered right wing in utter rout fromthe field. General Thomas, with a desperate firmness hardly equaledin the annals of war, held the
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. Confederates moving onin powerful masses, andthe Federals holding theirground with unflinching courage. After the conflict had continuedfor some hours, the national battle-line was opened by General Wood,acting under mistaken orders. The Confederate general, seeing hisadvantage, thrust forward a heavy column into the gap, cut the Unionarmy in two, and drove the shattered right wing in utter rout fromthe field. General Thomas, with a desperate firmness hardly equaledin the annals of war, held the left until nightfall, and then, undercover of darkness, withdrew into Chattanooga, where the defeatedarmy of Rosecrans had already found shelter. The Union losses inthis dreadful battle amounted in killed, wounded and missing tonearly nineteen thousand, and the Confederate loss was even moreappalling. General Bragg at once pressed forward to besiege Federal lines of communication were cut off, and for a while thearmy of Rosecrans was in danger of being annihilated. But General. BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA, SEPT. 19, 20, 1863. THE WORK OF 63. 515 Hooker arrived with two corps from the Army of the Potomac, openedthe Tennessee River, and brought relief to the besieged. At the sametime General Grant, being promoted to the chief command of theWestern armies, assumed the direction of affairs at Chattanooga. Gen-eral Sherman also arrived with his division, so strengthening the Armyof the Cumber-land that offen-sive operationswere at oncerenewed. Theleft wing ofthe Confederatearmy now rest-ed on Look-out Mountain,and the righto n MissionaryRidge. A po-sition seeminglymore impregna-ble could hard-ly be conceivedof. GeneralBragg was notonly confidentof his ability tohold his linesagainst any ad-vance of the Federals but even contemplated the storming of Chatta-nooga. On the 20th of November he gave notice to General Grant toremove all non-combatants as the town was about to be
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