The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-05

enemy broke and fled to his second line of
works at the foot Of the mountains, losing
| in his disorder about 200 prisoners, repre-.
senting mainly Hindman's division, and a
large portion belonging to the 18th Ala
bama infantry. The enemy, finding his
| line breaking in disorder, opened fire of
artillery from the ridge, to cover their re-
| treat, and, for a few moments, this was
very vigorously maintained. Little or no
damage was done, as our troops were now
safely behind and on couple of hills,
known on the map as Bald Knobs. These
were taken possession of by Gen. Hazen's
brigade, and the right of Gen. Which, the
| 18th Ohio being the regiment which occu-
pied the most important hill Of the two.
| THE REcoNNoIssANcE THUS ENDED,
Gen. Wood reported, and received in reply
that he had met with such signal success,
and had gained so important a point that it
was determined to holdi it, and orders were
given him to intrench himself. At the
same time the division of Gen. Sheridan
was moved forward on his right, to sup
port him, while Gen. Howard's corps NOV
ed on his left, in order to protect his flank.
A small but deep stream lay in Gen. How
ards front, and it was determined to OBJ
tain possession Of that as detile to his po-
sition. But the enemy had built strong
rifle pits on the east bank OF the stream
Though the force in Woods front had been
routed. there still remained a force in the
| works on his left flank, and these were de-
veloped as soon as Gen. Howard moved
forward and attempted to take possession
on the creek-it is called Citico. He be-
came engaged in sharp skirmish, the en-
envy persistently holding their own. See
| ing this, Gen. Granger sent Gen. Samuel
| Beatty, hitherto in reserve, by flank
movement to the right of this position. He
came upon the enemy's left flank very I'M
| Ill Sryhf
ing on their flank, with a vigorous attack
by Gen. Howard in the front, the enemy
fell back, and we found ourselves in entire
possession Of their first line Of rifle-pits
and the important portion of Bald Knob.
The positions taken were entrenched, and
the centre found itself next morning in a
strong defensive position, awaiting opera
tons on the TANKS. During the night, Capt.
Bridges battery of artillery was moved
from Fort Wood to the summit of Bald
Knob, and this position it retained during
the remainder Of the operations.
TIE SECOND DAYS OPERATIONS.
During the night of Monday, General
Sherman succeeded in reaching his position
on the north side of the river, opposite the
mouth Of Chickamauga Creek, preparatory
to crossing at daylight in the morning
Col. Stanley, 18th Ohio, had the boats in
order for crossing, the steamer Dunbar be-
ing moved during the night to the same
point. AT daylight Sherman began cross
ing his three divisions under Ewing, NJ. l..
and j. G. Smith, and that of Gen. Davis.
This latter division, holding itself in read
mess to act as reserve to the 18th corps,
finished crossing at one a. m., and had no
sooner done so, and taken position on the
tetes du pont built by Sherman, than the
latter moved to the attack of the enemy S
supposed position on the north end Of Mis-
sion Ridge. This movement was made
slowly and without opposition. The hill
was taken possession Of by three O'Clock
in the afternoon. AS the enemy contented
himself with firing few shells at US from
Tunnel Hill, but made no serious opposi-
: ton to the occupation Of the position, Sher-
man intrenched his position and prepared
for an attack at an early hour the ensuing
morning. The enemy, on observing this
heavy force on his right flank, went Wig
orously to work to strengthen his position.
| ON THE CENTER.
The center was held during Tuesday by
Generals Granger, Palmer and Howard
Gen. Granger remained quiet, only occa-
sionally opening from Bridges battery on
the rebel center. Gen. Palmer remained
quiet in an imposing and threatening atti-
Lockport and Mission Ridge. One of his
brigades was also sent to Hooker. Gen.
Towards corps lD was employed during
the day in opening communications and
forming a junction with Sherman at the
mouth Of Chickamauga.
) This was effected without serious opposi.
ton by noon, but the line held by GEN
4 Howard was allowed to be very extended
and weak as if Grant courted an attack
upon that part Of it. He would very will.
lingly have had his center broken at that
point, but the rebels who had a full need
Of everything saw that such an attemp,
would not pay"
GENERAL HooKER'S ASSAULT ON LOOKOUT
J MOUNTAIN.
While Gen. Sherman proceeded to dem
onstrate upon the rebel right, Gen, Hook
er made an attack upon the rebel left on
T Lookout Mountain. 1t is not clear which
movement was the feint, or if either was
so intended, but it is believed that the aim
, and intention was to draw the rebels to eli
ther wing in order to give the disengaged
I and fresh center an opportunity to storm
, the heights and cut the rebels in two. How
ever this may have been intended, it was
subsequently discovered that the enemy
trusting to the natural strength Of Look
out, had left small force of two brigades
!, to hold it, and had not weakened their cen.
, ter to any great extent. In order to take
, ment, Gen. Hooker began the attack on the
Mountain at an early hour, with General
Gearys division of the 18th Corps, Gen
Osterhaus' division of Sherman's Corps,
and Whitaker and Groves brigades OF
, Stanley's division of the 4th Corps.
Our informant was cut off from General
Hookers command by the destruction Of
the bridges and knows little or nothing OF
the minuter details Of the engagement. I,
appears, however, that Gen. Hooker NOV
ed up the Valley west of Lookout Noun
tain toward Trenton. The enemy suppos-
ed him to be moving to a gap some miles
south of the point Of Lookout but having
this guarded apparently did not fear his at
, tack. But after going to the rear of the re-
bel force, posted on the point about three
miles, Gen. Hooker Immediately began tc
! ascend the mountain aud formed line OF
battle, facing northward, with Gen. Geary
, OIL: the front line, his right resting agains,
the palisades which form the cap of Look
out Mountain. These palisades formed an
insurmountable obstacle to the ascent Of
the force to the summit. His right wing
resting against these, his left extended
about half way down the mountain. Whit.
taker and Grove formed the second line
, while Osterhaus formed the third. Heavy
RI lines of Skirmishers We're thrown out the