Date: 1893
The baggage and tents had mainly been left behind,2 and a tent fly Avas the shelter for brigade and division headquarters ; but the food, consisting of meat, bread, coffee, and sugar, was good and in plentiful supply.3 All the supplies came OA-er the single line of railroad running from Chattanooga to Atlanta, of Avhich the track was torn up, and the bridges burned by the Confed erates, as they retreated.  But the engineer corps in charge of the railway repairs Avas skilful and energetic, reneAving bridges as if by magic, to the Avonder of Johnston's men, who, under the illusion that their destroying work would cause great delays, were startled to hear the Avhistle of the locomotive bringing up the supply trains in the rear of the Union army.4 1 O. R., vol.  xxxviii.