. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. counterfeits a human face, witha pointed ledge for the nose. Surmounting palisades of * Indian, Crows nest, dignified by writers into Eagles nest.•J- Lookout Mountain is properly a continuation of the range of mountains which,beginning in Pennsylvania, extends in a southwesterly direction through Virginia,Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama; and which is known in the East as the Allegha-nies, in the West as the Cumberland, and in the South as Lookout Mountain. Therange would be an unbroken chain from the Susquehanna to the Co
. A personal history of Ulysses S. Grant, and sketch of Schuyler Colfax. counterfeits a human face, witha pointed ledge for the nose. Surmounting palisades of * Indian, Crows nest, dignified by writers into Eagles nest.•J- Lookout Mountain is properly a continuation of the range of mountains which,beginning in Pennsylvania, extends in a southwesterly direction through Virginia,Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama; and which is known in the East as the Allegha-nies, in the West as the Cumberland, and in the South as Lookout Mountain. Therange would be an unbroken chain from the Susquehanna to the Coosa, from theiron and coal fields of Pennsylvania to the gold region of Georgia, if it were not forthe existence of the Tennessee River.—William F. G. Shanks. 356 Tue Town Invested by Bragg. [1863. gray rock encircle the brow like a crown, and at times soft,fleecy clouds envelop it like the snowy locks of age. „—i JT / vessel** IjJrfURFREESBORO ,# Jl * KN0XV1LIE S s 4 COLUMBIA a ^DECATUR-•ATHENS s CHA!TANO0LA^cleveiand fayettevule\ «*«* ;t*>t HUNTSVILLE. -=^ *f-~ - let -^= £- l ,! -i iiiniminnniiiL ^ = /$ ^i^-SXROSSVIltE fe \ THE CHATTANOOGA CAMPAIGN. Chattanooga was too strongly fortified for Bragg to carryit by storm, but his arching line, from the river above tothe river below, completely invested the southeast side, andinclosed Missionary Ridge and Lookout, whose batteriesdropped shells into the city every day. Streets and yardswere gashed with rifle pits, and so much fresh dirt wasspaded up among the board huts of the soldiers, that Chat-tanooga seemed like some enormous prairie-dog town. Our army was on quarter rations. Three thousand sickand wounded soldiers suffered for the common necessitiesof life. The animals were utterly worn out, the artilleryhorses were back at the railroad, and there were believedto be ten thousand dead mules on the road to was almost expended, and the troops wereshort of clothing. But they toiled away, and,
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