111 Series I Volume XXXI-II Serial 55 - Knoxville and Lookout Mountain Part II
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Chattanooga, November 24, 1863.Major-General HOOKER:
Your success is glorious. Resupply ammunition if possible. We are crossing a brigade to connect with you. Send prisoners to Kelley's Ferry to be guarded. Take accurate list.
J. J. REYNOLDS,
Major-General, Chief of Staff.LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, November 24, 1863-4 p.m.
Major-General REYNOLDS:
It is so dark in Chattanooga Valley that it is impossible for me to see the position of the enemy or his numbers, and I deem it very imprudent to descend into it to-night. I hold the line from the white house to the point were the railroad passes beneath the mountain down the river on the Chattanooga side.
We have smart skirmishing along the line, particularly the upper part of it, but my troops are unflinching, and cannot be driven from their position, which they are strengthening every moment. The enemy continue to hold the top of Lookout Mountain, and I cannot prevent it until I can move around and take possession of the Summertown road, which, as I am informed, requires me to descend into the valley.
JOSEPH HOOKER,
Major-General, Commanding.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, November 24, 1863-5.15 p.m.
Major-General REYNOLDS:
General Carlin's brigade just reported to me. I have sent it to the right of my line, resting on the white house, as this was held by troops exhausted from the labors of to-day. At this point they will be in position to threaten the enemy's rear, if he does not retire before morning.
JOSEPH HOOKER,
Major-General, Commanding.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, November 24, 1863-6.40 p.m.
Major-General REYNOLDS:
I am all right for to-night. In the morning I shall be short of batteries, though I hope to have the road and the bridges in condition to enable me to bring forward some of mine by the time I shall require them. The enemy had felled trees across the Chattanooga road over the mountain, and a slide in the road made it necessary to expend a good deal of labor upon it. From the dense fog to-day I have not been able to learn much of the topography of Chattanooga Valley in my front. For this reason I suggest that the operations
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