 ... and with only such supplies as they could carry. A retreat would have been almost certain annihilation, for the enemy, occupying positions within gunshot of and overlooking our very fortifications, would unquestionably have pursued our retreating...  Congressional Serial Set - Page 301891Full view - About this book
 | 1865 - 278 pages
...would unquestionably have pursued our retreating forces. Already more than ten thousand animals had perished in supplying half rations to the troops by...from Stevenson and Bridgeport to Chattanooga, over Waldron's Ridge. They could not have been supplied another week. " By the use of two steamboats, one... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 830 pages
...retreating forces. Already more than ten thousand animals had perished in supplying half102 DOCUMENTS. rations to the troops by the long and tedious route...from Stevenson and Bridgeport to Chattanooga over Waldrous Ridge. They could not have been supplied another week. The enemy was evidently fully apprised... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1865 - 430 pages
...starvation. It was estimated that ten thousand animals perished in supplying half-rations to the Yankee troops by the long and tedious route from Stevenson and Bridgeport to Chattanooga over Waldron's Ridge. While Bragg thus held the Yankees in Chattanooga at the point of sfarvation, his cavalry... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1866 - 794 pages
...would unquestionably have pursued our retreating forces. Already more than ten thousand animals had perished in supplying half rations to the troops by...from Stevenson and Bridgeport to Chattanooga, over Waldron's Ridge. They could not have been supplied another week. pdssession of them, a night attack... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...would unquestionably have pursued our retreating forces. Already more than ten thousand animals had perished in supplying half rations to the troops by...from Stevenson and Bridgeport to Chattanooga, over Waldron's Ridge. They could not have been supplied another week. possession of them, a night attack... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...would unquestionably have pursued our retreating forces. Already more than ten thousand animals had perished in supplying half rations to the troops by...from Stevenson and Bridgeport to Chattanooga, over Waldron's Ridge. They could not have been supplied another week. The enemy was evidently fully apprised... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 902 pages
...fortifications, would unquestionably have pursued retreating forces. Already more than ten thousand animals had perished in supplying half rations to the troops by...from Stevenson and Bridgeport to Chattanooga over Waldron's Ridge. They could not have been supplied another week." The first movement under Grant was,... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 908 pages
...fortifications, would unquestionably have pursued retreating forces. Already more than ten thousand animals had perished in supplying half rations to the troops by...from Stevenson and Bridgeport to Chattanooga over Waldron's Ridge. They could not have been supplied another week." The first movement under Grant was,... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 930 pages
...fortifications, would unquestionably have pursued retreating forces. Already more than ten thousand animals had perished in supplying half rations to the troops by...from Stevenson and Bridgeport to Chattanooga over Waldron's Ridge. They could not have been supplied another week." The first movement under Grant was,... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - History - 1890 - 554 pages
...fortifications, would unquestionably have pursued retreating forces. Already more than 10,000 animals had perished in supplying half rations to the troops by...from Stevenson and Bridgeport to Chattanooga over Waldron's Ridge. They could not have been supplied another week." Grant's first movement was to establish... | |
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