. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . TROOPS AT CITY POINT READY TO BK T.\.KEN TO THE FRONT BY RAIL 1f-19]. THE SUPPLY ROUTE WHEN THE RAILROADS WERE ^^TlECKED When the Army of tlie Cumberland under Rosecrtans retreated from the field of Chickamauga, with 16,000 ofits 62,000 effectives killed and wounded, it concentrated at Chattanooga. The Confederates under Braggheld the south bank of the Tennessee, and from the end of the railroad at Bridgeport there was a haul ofsixty miles to Chattanooga. Twenty-six miles of railroad, including the long truss bridge across the Ten-
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . TROOPS AT CITY POINT READY TO BK T.\.KEN TO THE FRONT BY RAIL 1f-19]. THE SUPPLY ROUTE WHEN THE RAILROADS WERE ^^TlECKED When the Army of tlie Cumberland under Rosecrtans retreated from the field of Chickamauga, with 16,000 ofits 62,000 effectives killed and wounded, it concentrated at Chattanooga. The Confederates under Braggheld the south bank of the Tennessee, and from the end of the railroad at Bridgeport there was a haul ofsixty miles to Chattanooga. Twenty-six miles of railroad, including the long truss bridge across the Ten-nessee River and the trestle at Whiteside, a quarter of a mile long and one hundred and thirteen feet high, hadbeen destroyed. Rosecrans only route to supply his army was the river. It was Lieutenant-Colonel (laterBrigadier-General) William G. Le Due who saved from a freshet the first flat-bottomed boat, the Chatta-nooga, which carried 45,000 rations up to Ivelleys Ferry, whence the haul was only eight miles to the Armyof tlie Cumberland—instead of sixty. Later more boats were built, and the railroad repaired, but it wasLe D
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