Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-05-19

completed early in the present season
and the lines of battle at that point
have already been ascertained and
partially marked.
It was decided to establish the first
camps in the Dyer field, which in one
direction adjoin the ground where
Longstreet's columns broke the Union
lines on the second day of the battle,
and caused considerable portion of
the right of the army to be driven
from the field in confusion. At it's
other extremity, it sweeps up to the
heights of Snodgrass Hill, where those
famous but unsuccessful attacks of
Longstreet's columns broke in unend-
ing succession of magnificent assaults,
continuing from o'clock till sun
down, against the unshaken lines of
Thomas. These camps will be the
centre of division line of three
brigades, if the present plan of estab-
fishing the reserve division at the park
is carried out.
It was also determined to estab-
lish the right brigade in the fields
about the Bloody Pond in front of
Widow Glenn's, which was Rosecrans's
headquarters, and on the Viniard
field. At this latter point, on Satur-
day, seven brigades on each side swept
back and forth in succeeding victories
and defeats, from noon until sundown,
in one of the bitterest contests of
those which marked the severe fight
ing of the two days. This portion of
the line also embraced the brilliant
fighting of the poet Lytle's command.
The camp of the left brigade is also in
plain view of the fighting ground about
General Thomas's headquarters at the
Snodgrass House, and will cover por-
ton of the territory over which Cor
don Changers troops rushed without
orders toward the sound of battle, to
the relief of General Thomas and the
salvation of an army.
An adjoining camp overlooks the
Kelly field, into which breckenridge
division of Confederates, turning the
Union left, penetrated on Sunday
morning, and over which five brigade
| charges occurred in the movements
necessary to drive his columns back.
In front of this field also ran the four
divisions of the Union left, which
stood as firm as did Thomass troops
on Snodgrass Hill, and bore the brunt
| of frequent assaults by the entire
right wing of the enemy.
The camps for cavalry have been es-
tablished in the open country along
the Chickamauga River from Alexan-
| der's Bridge to Reeds Bridge, thus
occupying the ground where Forests
cavalry, stationed to observe the right
and rear of Bragg's army, was at
tackled by the head of General Thomas's
corps, which, by night march, had
passed around the Confederate right
to position fully in it's rear, and GOV
ering the roads to Chattanooga. Here
Forests cavalry dismounted, and
fighting as infantry, so fought, in we'll
ordered lines, with pluck and en-
durance which carried them into the
very flashing of the guns of the Union
batteries, as to create the impression
with Thomas s veterans that they were
fighting infantry. On this portion of
the field the soldiers now camping
there will learn how for five hours
contest ragged constantly at point.
blank range and often almost hand-to'
hand where the severity of the fight.
ing is well illustrated by the single
fact that one brigade of Forests com
mand here lost quarter of its entire
force in killed and wounded in the
first hour of the engagement