. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . )ai-ing to weld many fragmentary bodies of troojjs into afighting army. After a month of bold maneuvering, the advance ofHoods army appeared, on the 26th of October, at Decatur,on the south side of the Tennessee. It had been a time ofperplexitv to the Federal authorities and of intense alarmthrouahout the Xorth. Hood had twice thrown his armv be-tween Sherman and the letters base; had captured four garri-sons, and destroyed thirty miles of i-ailroad. His movementshad
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . )ai-ing to weld many fragmentary bodies of troojjs into afighting army. After a month of bold maneuvering, the advance ofHoods army appeared, on the 26th of October, at Decatur,on the south side of the Tennessee. It had been a time ofperplexitv to the Federal authorities and of intense alarmthrouahout the Xorth. Hood had twice thrown his armv be-tween Sherman and the letters base; had captured four garri-sons, and destroyed thirty miles of i-ailroad. His movementshad been bold and brilliantly executed. At Decatur, Hood found himself too far east to join withForrest, whose cooperation was absolutely necessary to he moved westward to Florence where the first division ofhis army, with but little opposition from Croxtons cavalry,crossed the Tennessee on the 31st. Forrest had gone down theriver to intercept the Federal line of supplies. At John- [252] ^y~\. ^ OF REViEWS CO. CHATTANOOGA FORTIFIED IX 1801 When Hood made his audacious movement upon Shermans communications, by invading Tennessee — without however temptingthe Xorthcrn commander from his grim course—Chattanooga was the only point in Thomas Department, south of Nashville, whichwas heavily garrisoned. This town became the supply center for all the Federal posts maintained in eastern Tennessee. Thereforeit had been well fortified, so strongly in fact that Thomas, who had just begun his great concentration movement, was able by Decem-ber 1st to draw Steedman away to the Elk River and thence to Nashville. It was from a point on the hill a little to the right of thescene shown in the lower photograph on this page that the picture of Chattanooga fortified was taken.
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