The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-12-04

Graphic Report By Gen'
s., Moigs.
HEAnaUARTTRs. CHATTANOOGA,
~ - - Nov. IS, 1893. 4

Edwin NJ. Stanton, Secretary Of War:
SIR: On the 93d instant, At 11.30 in
the forenoon, General Grant ordered >
demonstration against Mission Ridge, to
develop the force holding it. The troops
marched out, formed in order, and ad-
vanced in line Of battle as if on parade.
The rebels watched the formation and
movement from their picket lines and
rife pits, and from the summits Of Mis-
sion Ridge, Eve hundred feet above us,
and thought it was . review and drill, 80
openly suds deliberately, 50 regularly was
il oil done. &
The line advanced, preceded by skir-
mishers, and 1t o'clock in the afternoon,
reached our picket lines and opened >
rattling volley upon the rebel pickets,
who repli.d and ran into their advanced
line Of rifle pits. After them our skir-
mishers. and into them, along the centre
Of the kas Of "a, 900 troops which Gene
raj Thomas had SO quickly dipiayed.-
Until We opened Ere. prisoners assert that
they thought the whole movement was
review and general drill, and that i, was
too late to send to their camps for rein
forcemens, and that they we're over
whelmed by force Of numbers. II was
surprise in open daylight.
At 3 O'Clock in the afternoon the i'm
portant advanced position of Orchard
Knob, and the lines right and left, were
in our possession, and arrangements were
ordered for holding them during The night.
The next day at daylight General Thorn
as had 5000 men across the Tennessee,
and established on its south bank, and
commenced the contraction Of . pontoon
bridge about six miles above Chatts-
nooga
The rebel steamer Dunbar was repaired
at the right moment. and rendered effect
i've aid in this crossing. carrying ever
5000 men. By nightfsll General Thomas
had seized the extremity Of Missionary
Ridge nearest the river, and vas in.reneh-
ing himself. General Howard, With .
brigade, opened communication with him
from Chaitsaooga on the south side of
the river. Skirmishing and cannonadine
continued all day on the left and centre
General Hooker scaled the slope Of Look
cut Mountain, aud from the valley Of
Lookou. creek drove the rebels around
The point. captured some 1900 prisoners,
and established himself high up the
mountain SIDE, 10 full view OF Chatla-
nooga. This raised tho blockade, and
now steamers were ordered from Bridge
port to Chattanooga. They had run only
TO kelley's Ferry, whence ten miles Of
hauling over mountain roads. and twice
across the Tennessee on the pontoon
bridges. brought US our supplies.
All night the point of Missionary Ridge.
on the extreme left, and the side Of Look.
out Mountain, on the extreme right,
blazed with the camp fires of loyal
troops.
The day had been one Of dense mis,s
and rains. and much of General Hooker's
battle vas fought above the clouds, which
concealed him from our view, but from
which his musketry was heard.
At nighsfsli the sky cleared, and the
full moon, 1.-THE traitors doou," shone
npoa the beautiful scene until O'Clock
in the morning when twinkling sparks
upon the mountain side showed that picket
skirmishing was going on. Then it
ceased. A brigade sent from Chatta-
nooga crossed the Chattanooga creek and
opened mmunication with General
Hooker.
General Grants headquarters during
the afternoon of the Esd, and the day OF
the Gath, we're in Woods redoubt, ex-
cept wheu in the course Of the day he
rode along the advanced line, visiting the
headquarters of the several commanders
in Chattanooga Valley.
At daylight on the a5th, the stars and
stripes we're deserted On the peak of Look
out the rebels had evacuated the noun
tain.
Hooker moved to descend the noun.
tain, and. striking Mission Ridge At the
Rossville Gap, TO sweep on both sides
and on its summit.
The rebel troops we're seen rs soon as
it was light enough, streaming regiments
and brieades along the narrow summit of
Mission Ridge, either concentrating on
the right to overwhelm Sherman, or
marching for the railroad and raising the
siege.
s They had evacuated the valley Of Chat
tanoaga:' would, they abandon that Ut
Chickamsuga?
The 2O-pounders ard Al inch rifles of
Woods redonbt opened on Mission Ridge
Orchard Knob sent its compliments to
the Ridge, waioa. With ri6ed Parrott's,
answered, and the cannonade, Thus com
menced, continued all day. Shot and
shell screamed from Orchard Knob to
Missionary Ridge, and from Missionary
Ridge to Orchard Knob, and from Wood .
redoubt, over the heads of Generals Grant
and Thomas and their STATS. who were
with US in this favorable position from
whence the whole hattie could be seen Is
in an amphitheatre. The headquarters
were under ere all day long.
Cahnonsding and mnsketry we're heard
from General Sherm6h, and General How
ard marched the sllth Corps to join him.
] Genssal Thomas sent out skirmiahe1.
who drove in the enemy,s. pickets, and
chased them irto their iutrenchments,
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