. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . fording a mao^nificent view which extendsinto six different States, and of the Tennessee river for thirty miles of its wind-ing course. Two miles to the east, running from north to south, is the crest of 658 ULYSSES S. GRANT. Missionary Ridge, five hundred feet high,—the site of schools and churchesestablished long ago by Catholic missionaries among the Cherokee Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge were occupied by the army ofGeneral Bragg, and his commanding position, strengthened by fortifications,was considered i
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . fording a mao^nificent view which extendsinto six different States, and of the Tennessee river for thirty miles of its wind-ing course. Two miles to the east, running from north to south, is the crest of 658 ULYSSES S. GRANT. Missionary Ridge, five hundred feet high,—the site of schools and churchesestablished long ago by Catholic missionaries among the Cherokee Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge were occupied by the army ofGeneral Bragg, and his commanding position, strengthened by fortifications,was considered impregnable. The disastrous battle of Chickamauga, in September, 1863, had left theUnion armies in East Tennessee in a perilous situation. General Thomas, inChattanooga, was hemmed in by the Confederate forces, and his men and horseswere almost starving. The army was on quarter rations. Ammunition wasalmost exhausted, and the troops were short of clothing. Thousands of armymules, worn out and starved, lay dead along the miry roads. Chattanooga, t-^. .. UNITED STATES MINT, NEW ORLEANS. occupied by the Union army, was too strongly fortified for Bragg to take it bystorm, but every day shells from his batteries upon the heights were throwninto the town. This was the situation when Grant, stiff and sore from hisaccident, arrived at Nashville, on his way to direct the campaign in East Ten-nessee. Hold Chattanooga at all hazards. I will be there as soon as possible, hetelegraphed from Nashville to General Thomas. We will hold the town untilwe starve, was the brave reply. Grants movements were rapid and decisive. He ordered the troops con-centrated at Chattanooga ; he fought a battle at Wauhatchie, in Lookout Valley, COMMANDER OF ALL THE ARMIES. 659 which broke Braggs hold on the river below Chattanooga and shortened theUnion line of supplies; and by his prompt and vigorous preparation for effec-tive action he soon had his troops lifted out of the demoralized condition inwhich
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