. A brief history of the United States . Grant is reported tohave declared the so-called battle above the clouds to be all poetry, there havingbeen no action there worthy the name of battle. t The signals for the attack had been arranged : six cannon-shots, fired at intervalsof two seconds. The moment arrived. Strong and steady the order rang out: Number one, fire! Number two, fire ! Number three, fire ! It seemed to me,Bays Taylor, like the tolling of the clock of destiny. And when at Number six,fire! the roar throbbed out with the flash, you should have seen the dead line, thathad been lying
. A brief history of the United States . Grant is reported tohave declared the so-called battle above the clouds to be all poetry, there havingbeen no action there worthy the name of battle. t The signals for the attack had been arranged : six cannon-shots, fired at intervalsof two seconds. The moment arrived. Strong and steady the order rang out: Number one, fire! Number two, fire ! Number three, fire ! It seemed to me,Bays Taylor, like the tolling of the clock of destiny. And when at Number six,fire! the roar throbbed out with the flash, you should have seen the dead line, thathad been lying behind the works all day, come to resurrection in the twinkling of an^e, and leap like a blade from its scabbanL** THE CIVIL TVAR, 249 the base, and then swept on up the ascent. Grant caught theinspiration, and ordered a grand charge along the whole they went, over rocks and chasms, all lilies broken, theflags far ahead, each surrounded by a gioup of the tiring a shot, and heedless of the tempest hurled. CHARGING UP MISSIONARY RIDGE. upon them, they surmounted the crest, captured the guns,and turned them on the retreating foe. That night the Unioncamp-fires, glistening along the heights about Chattanooga,proclaimed the success of this, the most brilliant of Grantsachievements and the most picturesque of all the battles ofthe war. The Effects of this campaign were the utter rout of Braggsarmy, the resignation of that general, and the possessionof Chattanooga by the Union forces. This post gave con-trol of East Tennessee, and opened the way to the heart 250 EPOCH V. [1863. of the Confederacy. It became the doorway by which theUnion army gained easy access to Virginia, North and SouthCarolina, Georgia, and Alabama. THE WAR IN EAST TENNESSEE. While Rosecrans was moving on Chattanooga, Burnside,being relieved of the command of the Army of the Potomac,was sent into East Tennessee, where he met with great suc-cess. In the meantime the Confederate Presi
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