. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . , MCviEW OF ftCVtewB CO. THE BLOODIKST BATTLE-lIELD OF THE WAR of the mighty conOict had shifted to the West. After Gettysburg the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac laywarilj- watehiiig eacli other, each disinchncd to become the aggressor. Lincoln had been urging Rosecrans to move his .\rmy of theCumberland on from Murfreesboro and attack Braggs entrenched position in south central Tcnnessw so a,s to prevent Bragg from de-taching troops to raise th
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . , MCviEW OF ftCVtewB CO. THE BLOODIKST BATTLE-lIELD OF THE WAR of the mighty conOict had shifted to the West. After Gettysburg the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac laywarilj- watehiiig eacli other, each disinchncd to become the aggressor. Lincoln had been urging Rosecrans to move his .\rmy of theCumberland on from Murfreesboro and attack Braggs entrenched position in south central Tcnnessw so a,s to prevent Bragg from de-taching troops to raise the siege of Vicksburg. .At last, on June 24,1863, he took the initiative, and then, with what is considered by somemilitary ^Titers the wars masterpiece of strategy, he drove Bragg out of Tennessee into Georgia. Rosecrans advance was in Bniggsabandoned works around Tullahoma on July :id and in Chattanooga on September 9th, all without a battle. Biirnside. with the .-Vrmyof the Ohio, captured Knoxville on September 3d. But Tennessee was not to be abandoned by the Confederates without a w CHICKAMAUGA—THE BLOODIESTCONFLICT IN THE WEST III its dimensions and its nunderoiisness the Ijattle of Chickamautrawas the reatest battle touirht hv our Western armies, and one of thegreatest of modern times. In our Civil War it was execeded only bvtiettvsburg and the ^Vilderness ; in Emopean history we may comparewith it siieh battles as Neerwinden, or ]\Ialpla([uet, or Waterloo.—JulniFlskc ill ■The Miaslssippi VaUci/ in the Civil HV/?-. THE town of Chattanooga, Tennessee, lies in a great bendof tlie Tennessee River and within a vast amphitheaterof mountains, ranging in a general southwesterly direction,and traversed at intervals by great depressions or passes form a natural gateway from the mid-^Iississip])ivalley to the seaboard States. To dislodge the Confederatearmy under General Bragg from this natural fortress wouldremove the last barrier to the invading Federal
Size: 2370px × 1055px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthormillerfrancistrevelya, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910
