. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . wiiiimii. 4ry. a^2^ to the front early on the 13th, expecting to witness the an-nihilation of the Twenty-first Corps, he found to his bitterdisajipointment that the bishop-general had made no move andthat Crittenden had reunited his divisions and was safe on thewest bank of the Chickamauga. Thus his splendid chances ofbreaking up the Army of the Cumberland were ruined. When Braggs position became known to Rosecrans,great was his haste to effect the concentration of hi
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . wiiiimii. 4ry. a^2^ to the front early on the 13th, expecting to witness the an-nihilation of the Twenty-first Corps, he found to his bitterdisajipointment that the bishop-general had made no move andthat Crittenden had reunited his divisions and was safe on thewest bank of the Chickamauga. Thus his splendid chances ofbreaking up the Army of the Cumberland were ruined. When Braggs position became known to Rosecrans,great was his haste to effect the concentration of his dashed toward Aljjine with orders for ]McCook tojoin Thomas with the utmost celerity. The former started atonce, shortly after midnight on the 13th, in response toThomass urgent call. It Avas a real race of life and death,attended by the greatest hardships. Ignorant of the roads,McCook submitted his troops to a most exhausting march,twice up and down the mountain, fifty-seven miles of the mostarduous toil, often dragging artillery up by hand and lettingit down steep declines by means of ropes. But he closed upwith Thomas
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