. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . d he was 2:)reparing to Meld many fragmentary bodies of troops into a fighting 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 ofper^ilexity to the Federal authorities and of intense alarmthroughout the Xortli. Hood had twice thro\vn his army be-tween Sherman and the latters base: had captured four garri-sons, and destroyed thirty miles of railroad. His movementshad been bold and brilliantly executed. At Decatur, Ho
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . d he was 2:)reparing to Meld many fragmentary bodies of troops into a fighting 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 ofper^ilexity to the Federal authorities and of intense alarmthroughout the Xortli. Hood had twice thro\vn his army be-tween Sherman and the latters base: had captured four garri-sons, and destroyed thirty miles of railroad. His movementshad been bold and brilliantly executed. At Decatur, Hood found himself too far east to join with Forrest, whose cooperation was absolutely necessary to him. So he moved westward to Florence where the first division of his army, with but little opposition from Croxtons cavalry. crossed the Tennessee on the 31st. Forrest had gone down the river to intercept the Federal line of supplies. At John-less ] ^^ /^j Xi ( C /><^^/V\ \,.^~^^??9i MiiilHi,{hf\m*- Jji|MK ^°^^^^^ ^ ■r^^^^^-hJ^Xn plHBfe liwm ^ ^^~^^5 a. CHATTANOOGA FOKTIHED IHIU Wlicn Hood inailiIlls auilacious movement upon comnninications, liy invading Tennessee — without however temptingthe Nortliorn commander from liis grim course—Cliattanooga was the only point in Thomas Department, soutli 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 jnst begun his great concentration movement, was able by Decem-ber 1st to draw iSteedman away to the KIk 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 tiiken.
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