File:The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14762569362).jpg
DescriptionThe photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14762569362).jpg
Text Appearing Before Image: ON LOOKOUT MOC.NTAIN—1864 Text Appearing After Image: IN THE BELEAGUERED CITY In the parlor of this little dwelling sat Ulysses S. Grant on the evening of October 23, 1863. Mucl.lv and rain-soaked f ro.n his long ridehe was gravely eonsulting with General Thomas and his officers. The .\rmy of the Cumberland was in a serious predicament, summedup by Thomas reply to Grants first order from Nashville: We will hold the town till wc starve. Grant had starved a Confederatearmy out of ^ icksburg; and now Braggs army, recnforccd by troops from Johnston, harl settled down before Chattanooga to starve out,m turn, what was then the most important Federal force in the West. Strongly posted on Missionarv Ridge and Lookout Mountainand m Chattanooga \ alley to the south and southeast of the town, Bragg controlled the railroad, making it impossible for supplies tocome over it from Bridgeport. Ala. Everything had to be brought into Chattanooga by wagon-trains over a roundabout route of nearly i
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