. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ggold, twentymiles from Chattanooga, and with his third(Thomas Woods) at Lee and Gordons Mills,ten miles from Ringgold. Wood remainedthere, alone and unsupported, until late in theday of the 12th. Crittenden was at the millswith his whole corps on the 13th and morn-ing of the 14th, moving back to Mission-ary Ridge on the 14th, but keeping Wood atGordons all that day. General Crittendenseemed to think that so long as the bridgethere was held, there was no danger of therebels passing to his rear on the road towardsChattanooga, though there wer
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ggold, twentymiles from Chattanooga, and with his third(Thomas Woods) at Lee and Gordons Mills,ten miles from Ringgold. Wood remainedthere, alone and unsupported, until late in theday of the 12th. Crittenden was at the millswith his whole corps on the 13th and morn-ing of the 14th, moving back to Mission-ary Ridge on the 14th, but keeping Wood atGordons all that day. General Crittendenseemed to think that so long as the bridgethere was held, there was no danger of therebels passing to his rear on the road towardsChattanooga, though there were other bridgesand several good fords over the Chickamaugaat other points. It was to the isolation of Woodthat Bragg refers in his order dated La-fayette, six p. M. on the 12 th. Captain Polk (inthe Southern Historical Society papers) says : General Bragg, in his official report of the battleof Chickamauga, charges General Polk with the failureto crush Crittendens forces in their isolated position atRinggold. It will be noted, however, that General. VIEW OF MOCCASIN POINT AND CHATTANOOGA FROM THE SIDi: OF LOOKOUI MOUNTAIN.(FROM A PHOTOGRAPH, BY PERMISSION OF MR. J. B. LINN.) 944 CHICKAMAUGA,—TBE GREAT BATTLE OF THE J JEST
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