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suited in it's capture. with 3l ,UOO prls- oners, on July 4, 1863, thereby opening the Mississippi and fully accomplishing the original purpose. During this bril- liant campaign General sherman was most active and therefore was appointed brigadier-general in the regular army, to date July 4, 1863. Meantime Rose- crans, having expelled the enemy from middle Tennessee, had forced him to evacuate Chattanooga, fought the bloody battle of Chichamauga, and fell back into Chattanooga, where he was in a precarious condition. On October 4 sherman was ordered to take his corps, the Fifteenth, from the Big Black via Memphis, with such other troops as Memphis X Charleston Railway, toward Chattanooga. He moved, repairing the road as he went, according to the eX- press orders of General Halleck. But on the twenty-seventh he received orders from General Grant to discontinue all work and march rapidly toward Bridge port on the Tennessee.
 He lost no time in doing so. Sher- mans Fifteenth Corps, with other com" mands, by the rapid movement for Chat tanooga, was now getting into position i; he was preparing to cross the river from the west bank, below the mouth of the Chickamauga, with the purpose of at tacking the northern end of Mission Ridge, while division of cavalry was sent to the enemy's right and rear to cut the railroad behind him. At o'clock, on the morning of November 24, sherman crossed on pontoon bridges, and by o'clock D. m. he was intrenched at the north end of Mission Ridge. Thus the disposal of troops in Grants line of battle was: sherman on the left in front of Tunnel Hill, Thomas in the center, at Fort Wood and Orchard Knob, while Hooker was to come up from Wauhat- chic, take Lookout Mountain and, cross ing to Rossville, advance upon the ridge, to complete the organization. There was open communication between these bodies by special couriers. While preparations were making for the center attack, under Thomas, it was evident that the enemy's design was to crush sherman. Fierce assaults were made upon him in quick succession, which he resisted, and thus performed good ser vice in drawing the foe to his flank,
 
 attack upon the ridge, which was sue cesSful. On the morning of the twenty fifth. sherman pursued the enemy ty the roads north of the ChiCkamauga, ar irving at Ringgold on that day, and everywhere destroying the enemy's com munications.
 THE RELIEF OE BURNSIDE.
 During these operations General Burn side was besieged by Longstreet in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was in great straits. On December s, under orders from Grant, which another commander was slow to obey, Sherman made forced marches to Burnside's relief, and reached Knoxville not a minute to soon, and after supplying Burnside with all the assistance and reenforcements he needed, marched back to Chattanooga. Toward the end of January, 1864, he returned to Memphis and Vicksburg, where, with parts of McPherson's and Hurlburt's corps, then unemployed, he marched to Jackson and Meridian, where he broke up the Confederate combina- tions and destroyed their communica- tions. On March 2, Grant had been made lieutenant-general; on March F he assumed command of all the armies of the United States, with the purpose of conducted in person the campaign of the Army of the Potomac.
 IN COMMAND IN THE WEST.
 On March l2, he assigned sherman to the command of the military division of the Mississippi, comprising the De- partments of the Ohio, the Tennessee, the Cumberland, and Arkansas in a word, of the entire southwestern region, with temporary headquarters at Nash vile. In letter of March 4, 1864, Grant acknowledges to Sherman his great gratitude for the co0Eeration and skill which so largely contributed to his own success, and on February 19, 1864, Sher- man received the thanks of Congress for his services in the Chattanooga can.- paign. On March 25, he began to prepare his command for action, to put the railroads in good condition and pro tect them and to make provision for the supplies of the army in it's approaching campaign. On April 10, he received his final instructions from Grant to move against Atlanta. Ordering his troops to rendezvous at Chattanooga, he made it his headquarters on April 28. His forces consisted of the armies of the mberland, General George II. Thomas the Tennessee, General James B. McPherson; and the Ohio, General John M. Schofeld. It was 99,00O strong, with 254 guns, while the Con- iederate army, under Johnston, about Al 900 strong, soon reinforced up to 62, 900 men was prepared to resist his advance, and if sherman had the ad- vantage of attack, Johnston had that of fighting behind intrenchments and natural obstacles.
 THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.
 Moving from Chattanooga. Sherman came up with him at Dalton, May IA, and turned his position at Buzzard's Roost by sending McPherson through Snake Creek Gap, when Johnston fel, back to Resaca. After an assault, May l5, Johnston retreated to CaSsyille and behind the Etowah on May l7. After the turning of Allatoona Pass, which he made secondary base, and fierce bat ties near New Hope Church, in the neigh borhood of Dallas, Johnston still luibiiSt iStlcateu to a StloHe pooitlOH oil kenesaw Mountain, having contracted and retired his Hanks to cover Marietta Sherman advanced his line with each | movement of the enemy, and | pressed operations, continually gaining ground. Both armies habitually fought | from behind log parapets until sherman ordered an attack on the fortified lines, June 2, but did not succeed in break ing through. He then determined to turn the position, and moved Gen. James B. McPherson's army, July 8, to- ward the Chattahoochee, which com pelled Johnston to retire to another en-