. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . indicate the principal fea-tures of the programme, let us now observe with what singularorder and exactitude it was carried out. Shermans troops marched from Bridgeport by way of White-sides, crossed the river at Browns Ferry, moved up the northhank, and were kept concealed from the enemy, and thusreached a point not far from the mouth of the South Chicka-niauga. One hundred and sixteen ponton-boats had beencarried by a concealed road to the mouth of the NorthChickamauga. The bridge site had been selected just belowthe South Chickamauga, where
. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . indicate the principal fea-tures of the programme, let us now observe with what singularorder and exactitude it was carried out. Shermans troops marched from Bridgeport by way of White-sides, crossed the river at Browns Ferry, moved up the northhank, and were kept concealed from the enemy, and thusreached a point not far from the mouth of the South Chicka-niauga. One hundred and sixteen ponton-boats had beencarried by a concealed road to the mouth of the NorthChickamauga. The bridge site had been selected just belowthe South Chickamauga, where the terrain, in front formed agood natural tete-de-pont, and where the artillery could beadvantageously posted. Shermans force, which had arrivedon the 23d of November, now consisted of the FifteenthCorps, under the command of General Blair; but at thecrossing of Browns Ferry, the division of Osterhaus, havingbeen detained by the breaking of the ponton-bridge, wasdirected to report to Hooker, and was with that general inthe subsequent
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