. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . ^ waged. Lee at once called forreinforcements, and his decimated ranks were filled ABRAHAM LINCOLN, p382 I MINOR MOVEMENTS. 383 Both armies were being prepared for active operationswhen the battle of Chickamauga at the west, so disastrousto the Federals, called attention and diverted troops to thatfield. Longstreet, with his corps, was sent to Braggs aid,and Hooker, with a strong corps, to Chattanooga. Thearmies, thus weakened, still ret
. The lives and campaigns of Grant and Lee. A comparison and contrast of the deeds and characters of the two great leaders in the civil war . ^ waged. Lee at once called forreinforcements, and his decimated ranks were filled ABRAHAM LINCOLN, p382 I MINOR MOVEMENTS. 383 Both armies were being prepared for active operationswhen the battle of Chickamauga at the west, so disastrousto the Federals, called attention and diverted troops to thatfield. Longstreet, with his corps, was sent to Braggs aid,and Hooker, with a strong corps, to Chattanooga. Thearmies, thus weakened, still retained their proportionatestrength, and their commanders soon began to seek anopening to assail each other. A campaign of field strategy-ensued, alike creditable to the skill of each, both demon-strating that they were masters of their art. Lee made the first movement. Leaving his camp(9th Oct.), he marched westward towards Madison CourtHouse, then turned northward and sought to turn the Fed-eral right wing. The high land south of the Rapidan par-tially concealed his movements; but the Union signalofficers on the summits of Thoroughfare Mountains per-ceived them. Meade at once sent Kilpatrick, commandingcavalry, to annoy Lee, and drew
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