. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT, 1911. HEVIS* OF REVIEWS CO. BEFORE CHICKAMAUGA—IX THE RUSH OF EVENTS Rarely does the camera afford such a perfectly contemporaneous record of the march of events so photograph shows the hotel at Stevenson, Alabama, during the Union advance that ended in Chicka-mauga. Sentinels are parading the street in front of the hotel, several horses are tied to the hotel posts, andthe officers evidently have gone into the hotel headquarters. General Alexander McDowell McCook, com-manding the old Twentieth Army Corps,
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT, 1911. HEVIS* OF REVIEWS CO. BEFORE CHICKAMAUGA—IX THE RUSH OF EVENTS Rarely does the camera afford such a perfectly contemporaneous record of the march of events so photograph shows the hotel at Stevenson, Alabama, during the Union advance that ended in Chicka-mauga. Sentinels are parading the street in front of the hotel, several horses are tied to the hotel posts, andthe officers evidently have gone into the hotel headquarters. General Alexander McDowell McCook, com-manding the old Twentieth Army Corps, took possession of the hotel as temporary headquarters on themovement of the Army of the Cumberland from Tullahoma. On August 29, 1863, between Stevenson andCapertons Ferry, on the Tennessee River, McCook gathered his boats and pontoons, hidden under the densefoliage of overhanging trees, and when ready for his crossing suddenly launched them into and across theriver. Thence the troops marched over Sand Mountain and at length into Lookout Valley. During th
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