. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . gramme, let us now observe with what singularorder and exactitude it was carried out. Shermans troops marched from Bridgeport by vraj of V\ hite-sides, crossed the river at Browns Ferrj, moved up the northbank, and were kept concealed from the enemv, and thusreached a point not far from the mouth of the South Chicka-mauga. One hundred and sixteen ponton-boats had beencarried by a concealed road to the mouth of the NorthChickamauga. The bridge site had been selected just belowthe South Chickamauga, where the terrain in fiont formed agood natural
. Grant and his campaigns: a military biography . gramme, let us now observe with what singularorder and exactitude it was carried out. Shermans troops marched from Bridgeport by vraj of V\ hite-sides, crossed the river at Browns Ferrj, moved up the northbank, and were kept concealed from the enemv, and thusreached a point not far from the mouth of the South Chicka-mauga. One hundred and sixteen ponton-boats had beencarried by a concealed road to the mouth of the NorthChickamauga. The bridge site had been selected just belowthe South Chickamauga, where the terrain in fiont formed agood natural tete-de-ponf, and where the artillery could beadvantageously posted. Shermans force, which li;id arrivedon the 23d of November, now consisted of the FifteenthCorps and one division of the Sixteenth, all under the com-mand of General Blair ; but at the crossing of BrownsFerry, the division of Osterhaus, having been detained bythe breakmg of the ponton-bridge, was directed to reportto Hooker, and was witli that general in the THE GRAND MoVKMKNT BEGUN. Oi-) THOMAS S ADVANCE. Leaving Sherman inr a moment, all ready to make hiserossinj:; on the , wo must now notico tlic very clevermovement of Thomas, which was to phi}- a most importantpart in the complications of the drama. On the 22d, somedeserters from Braggs army reported that he was fallingback. This statement received some confirmation, in theopinion of General Grant, fi-om the following dispatch receivedby him fiom Bragg : HEADQUAUTEnS AkMT OF TeXXESSEB, In the Field, Nov. 20, IjtiS. Major-Gekeral U. S. Quant, Commaitding Uintcd States Forces at Cfiattanoogn :General—As tliere may still be some non-combatants in Hiattanooga. Ideem it proper to notify you tliat prudence would dictate their early with-drawal. I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient sirvant, Braxton Bragg, General commanding. Grant, not quite certain, however, of its meaning, deter-mined to test the question. He dii-ected Thom
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