The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-04
GRANT And HISTORY.
More Testimony That There Was a
Battle at Lookout Mountain.
SEARCHING THE RECORDS OF THE WAR;
Was the Battle of Shiloh an I'm
portant Victory?
GRANrISM IN TIE PAST AND In THE FUTURE

GRANTISM IN TIE PAST AND In THE FUTURE
WAS THERE BATTLE OF LOOKOUT NOUN
TAIN ?-oRANr's STATEMENT TO THE HERALD
CORRESPONDENT COMPARED WITH BADEAU s
MILITARY HISTORY OF THE GENERAL.
From the Cincin natl Gazette August 2
There are some thousands OF brave volunteers
besides General Hooker who engaged in tho
storming OF Lookout--one OF the most brilliant &c
lions OF the their behalf we take up tho
history and oppose this sighting way OF resolving
heroic deeds lying That Grant did net say
this unless he has lost mis- mind prove by the
record; for Grant at the time reported battle OF
Lookout Mountain and thought 1t u remarkable feat
Aud General Thomas thought there was such u bat
tie and issued q copgratuatory order TO the troops
that made that splendid assault. But arst what was
Lookout Mountain as a military position and what Its
licences?
Al the point of an oxbow bend In the Tennessee
River, below Chattanooga, Lookout Mountains rises
prscptousy 1464 lcet above the river and $500 feet
above the sea. Eastward up the and bac from
1t and back OF Chattanooga Mission Ridge,
which at Its end comes TO the This ridge
Bragg's main position. HIS left was on Lookout
Mountain, which constituted ~hat seemed fortress
like Gibrpitar. "Badeau's Military history Of
Grant'-a work which is Tar from any design to d.
ninish his part in the war; and which was written
ander Grants revision-glves description, from
which extract:-
The the mountain is and rhckly wooded
heavy foliage and Ut the summit lofty pmiisaded crest
the northern slope midway between the summit
cs, the on ns ~
works had been thrown up; while .sdouots redans an
assaults from direction OF the river On each flank
valley at the foo o. the nes OF
works Of ain greater extent the entire force Tor the de-
sote mem q, 1n' mountain '0A'''''' 'A ''u
Such mountain fortress, well armed with artillery
ana defended by 1000 men, 10 be taken by assault
Without any battle to speak OIL We continue our OK
Tracts from Bateau:-
this time the enemy,s picket formed continuous line
the valleys. while the ain rebel force encamped
summit Itself was held by three bsadcs Of Stsvsnson
wr hs a. vine 0n thy
we're held ut the top b. rebol pckets.
Tho attack upon this mounts fortress made
by three aIvisions-oDe under Cruit, from the Army
OF the tennessee; one under Geary, IRON the Army OF
the Potomac, aud under Osterhaus, IRON the
Army OF the Ienuessee-ail under the immediate
command Of Hooker and the general direction OF
Thomas. rho attack on Lookout was not part OF
the revised plan oil the general attack That Intended
The grand and decisive movement by Sherman on
Bragg's right, which, II successful, would threaten
his COMMUNICATIONS. But Ugh water and the breaking
brdges delayed Sherman's crossing 10 the spot
would understand all their plan and would retreat he
therefore urged operations 10 hold Bragg. One OF
these Lookout the other, preceding IT, was on
Orchard Knob. an advance post OF Bragg, ON a de-
tached NIL IN front oil Mission Ridge, winch also was
taken ny assault and was held and fortified by
tLonias' troops.
We cannot here give a detailed account OF the sew
sral operations which resulted In the clearing OF all
these deicnces at tue loot and scaling the inoun
tain from tho valley Oh tie west, and sweeping
around to It's 'front.' with line reaching from base
bali way 10 the summit, until tho darkness aud
exhaustion OF ammunition forced suspension,
when troops mad reached a place where
they threatened the line OF retreat Of The rebels at The
summit 10 Bragg's position, and that night they
treated. We reprint some testinona ls 10 show how
the AFFAIR regarded at tho time. General Thomas
Issued the following congratuatory ORDER
HrAOau4nrnns DnrAnrsasr o. rae cgasnsLASD
Major General HooKEa, Lookout Valleys
Tue General Department congrstulates you
,rs has YOU spDSsy al, warsst thank. to the ua
der your comm and tor their valorous conduct.
The rest the order was iniormng,nm OF the opor.
atoms OF the morrow. Van Horns History OF the
Army OF tho Cumberland says:-
before daylight the morning anticipating the with
tain Genera hoos"r despatched several parties to scale
Ksntncss we're the reach top aniar the
Rational eannsr When the morning AR hrst kissed its
the victory which had been the day before
joy there Of tho
inspi which At the setting Of tue sun found historic
execution and issue that ON Mission Ridge.
"Draper's History" says
HOOKER marched the valley OF Lookout Mountain
mile south Of the encmys positions he then .scesdsd
the ridge until he reached tue palisades which form the
the north point and, while the eneys attention d.
.ss,sa 10 r. ss ~. 10 ia
secured about thousand three hundred prison
urriss OF the enemy guns on summit climbing over
,s a s.% sS alter h ms
his all broken and discrganre driven
back rocks and precp,ces into the valley.
And now rs 10 tho baltic above the clouds, which
gives tho romantic touch to this heroic feat BAdeau,
who wrote under Grants revision, says,
Attwo o'clock operations were arrested BY the darkness.
The clouds. which had lowered over and enye,oped the
SUNNI and a,srsd the Of oose, had been
that the peak Of the noun.an was rounded u VS. only
through the clouds, the occasional glmpscs of aud
standards as the FOG rose OF i that those n the valley
Hooker Informed his imusdi ,te superior t1LomssLD
that his line imprsgnabe and the snemys
delenecs with enalading hre LOOKOUT Mountain
carried
thus TIE poetic feature that TIM brilliant battle was
above the clouds supported by Grants own history
well as by that OF Van Horn and Draper. And now,
shall We believe that Grant has turned upon himself
and Is iaisiiyng his history pronouncipg all
other history lie 10 take from soldiers and officers
the tame or this glorious action and TO stigmztizs
them as imposters, travelling false pretcncc OF
battle, or that hrs Boswell IS playing faIso part and
ioistlng his own variations upon scanty thread OF
BrAnt's convcrsationsP
THAT GRANT MovEMEST-THE PEOPLE MAY
POSSIBLY LOOK FOR "a MAN OF IRON
WILL WHEN eRASTIsM CAN BE ONCE MORE
WELCOMED.
From the st. Louis Evening Post July 3o.l
Tie Grant movement is something to which we are
compelled 10 recur frequently, because It's progress
sach as TO need new studies every week In order to
understand H. Wine the Post has no special preju.
dice in favor OF Grant, not ioolisn to al
low prsJudicss OF any kind to blna to facts. AID
tho fact only that the Grant movement Is rapidly
growing bu, that II is gaining It's strength In the very
last quarter IRON which would naturally have ex
pectsd IT,
The movement was started chiefly as an expression
Of political disco3tent, as protest against auy pre-
iencc OF reform at the expense OF the party and
attempt to bring the party back into the old ruts.
But II rapidly away with its supporters until
to-day II comes as near to representing real reform
as any tbing likely TO get IN politics. Grantism
mi nsnaclaur rnnuhl hut