Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . ga, and the twotogether reconnoitred the ground, Grant explaininghis proposed plan of attack so soon as the Army ofthe Tennessee was forward and ready for action. Old Teciimseli there. Sherman arrived at Chattanooga at a most oppor-tune moment. It seemed as if the fates were workingin the interest of General Grant and the army underhis command. The plans of the general commandinghad worked to perfection ; they had been admirablycarried out, and they had been attended, so far, withcomplete success. And now
Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . ga, and the twotogether reconnoitred the ground, Grant explaininghis proposed plan of attack so soon as the Army ofthe Tennessee was forward and ready for action. Old Teciimseli there. Sherman arrived at Chattanooga at a most oppor-tune moment. It seemed as if the fates were workingin the interest of General Grant and the army underhis command. The plans of the general commandinghad worked to perfection ; they had been admirablycarried out, and they had been attended, so far, withcomplete success. And now, when Sherman, his trusted right arm,came up with his well-trained veterans, Bragg hadinvited attack by committing a huge and irreparable blunder. It was knownto the Confederate com-mander that Burnside atan earlier date had gen-^^^^^MK^-^iraBII^^^^^^-c^^.:^ eral instructions to push forward from Knoxvilleand form a connection withRosecrans. Believinor thatif such a connection A. E. BURNSIDE. now formed it would be fatal to his prospects, and in the vain hope of cutting. VALOR AT CHATTA\OOGA. 329 his rival off and beating him in detail, he detachedLongstreet from the army in front of Chattanoogaand ordered him to attack Burnside and take pos-session of Knoxville. A more fatal blunder he couldnot have committed. He could not, had such beenhis object, have played more completely into thehands of his antagonist. Grant saw his opportunity,but he resolved to wait until the arrival of Sherman,so as to be able to turn it to full and satisfactoryaccount. He was now ready. Burnside Heninied in. Grant was not insensible to the perilous positionin which Burnside was now placed, nor was he in-different to his calls for help. But he knew thatBurnside would be relieved most effectually by theplan which he himself proposed to carry out—thatthe threatened catastrophe at Knoxville would bebest averted by a decisive victory at Chattanooga. The great battle of Chattanooga—by fa
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