. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . e steep and frowning face of Lookout, whence itbends away again to the northwestward, only, after severalmiles of turbulent course in that direction, to return to itsgeneral direction to the southwest, until finally it turnsfrom this general direction, by a wide sweep, northward to-wards its mouth in the distant Ohio. Within the bend of the river, between the two ridgesmentioned, and on the south side of the stream, Chatta-nooga nestles, guarded and shut
. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . e steep and frowning face of Lookout, whence itbends away again to the northwestward, only, after severalmiles of turbulent course in that direction, to return to itsgeneral direction to the southwest, until finally it turnsfrom this general direction, by a wide sweep, northward to-wards its mouth in the distant Ohio. Within the bend of the river, between the two ridgesmentioned, and on the south side of the stream, Chatta-nooga nestles, guarded and shut in on all sides, except thesouthern, by high hills and rough mountains. The generalheight of Mission Ridge is four hundred feet; the height ofLookout is about twenty-two hundred feet, and the ridgefar above the river where it touches the base of the moun-tain, is crowned by a perpendicular mass of rock thirty ormore feet higher than the rest of the mountain, and thismass, known as, The Palisades, served the enemy for asignal station. The river has the swift current of a moun-tain stream and is at this place about four hundred yards ^9. 230 THE LIVES AND CAMPAIGNS OF GRANT AND LEK. wide. Coming up fromthe south and skirting the easternbase of Mission Ridge, South Chickamauga Creek, a deep,wide stream, almost a river, flows into the Tennessee. Alsoa smaller stream, called Chattanooga Creek, meanders upthe valley between the ridges and empties into the Tennes-see at the northern base of Lookout. By reference to a map, it will be seen that two adja-cent peninsulas are formed by the devious course of theriver at this point. That on which Chattanooga City issituated is not long nor deep, but the land tongue westof it, running down to the base of Lookout Mountain, isnarrow and long, and is known, generally, as MoccasinPoint. Another and much larger peninsula, if one may socall it, is across the river west of Moccasin Point, A valleywest of Lookout and between it and the Raccoon Moun-
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