. Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) . unitetl, and reinvigorated with a stern determinationto let the enemy win no more laurels, was once more drawn up inline of battle confronting Bragg. Twenty-four hours later the secondline was abandoned and the whole Union army was concentrated inChattanooga, where extensi\e and massive earthworks gave assurancethat e\en with his comparatively small force Rosecrans might hope tohold the town against his enemy. So ended the batt
. Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) . unitetl, and reinvigorated with a stern determinationto let the enemy win no more laurels, was once more drawn up inline of battle confronting Bragg. Twenty-four hours later the secondline was abandoned and the whole Union army was concentrated inChattanooga, where extensi\e and massive earthworks gave assurancethat e\en with his comparatively small force Rosecrans might hope tohold the town against his enemy. So ended the battle of Chickamauga. It had been a costly strug-gle for both armies. Never have I known bYxleral troops to fightso well, wrote the Confederate General llindman in his report, andhe atkls that he never saw Confederate troops fight better. Tothe valor shown by both armies the long lists of the killed andwounded bear testimony. Rosecrans lost in all 16,336 men, of whom1687 were killed and 9394 woumled. Braggs loss was, killed 2673,wounded 16,274, missing 2003. Though the battle had been a tacticalvictorv for the Confederates it had been a costU* one, as these figures. DRAGGING BATTERY THROUGH A MARSH. BATTLE FIELDS AND CAMP FIRES. 819 show. Moreover it proved a barren victory, for after all was overRosccrans and the Union army were in Chattanooga, and Bragg wasstill outside. And that the victory cost the Confederates so dear,and won for them so little, was due in the main to General GeorgeH. Thomas, who, with his 25,000 men on the slope of HorseshoeRidge, beat back Longstreet and Polk and saved the Union left. A month passed away. The Union troops, penned up in Ciiatta-nooga with the river behind them and Braggs men in front, beganto experience the discomforts of a siege. One rough road, sixtymiles long, over rugged mountain ranges, and through a countryinfested with the enemys sharpshooters, was the only way by whichsui)plies could be brought to the Union cajnp. In fair weather the
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