Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06

| cooperate with Hooker. BY these two
movements 1t was hoped to drive the
Cohfeder;ltes from both banks Of tic
Te.nessee and open that waterway to
! the army supply boats. Hooker's adj
vance column crossed the Tennessee
| at Bridgeport Oh the Goth and marched
1 up the south bank toward Chattanooga.
Tie Confederate barliers Intervening.
Night Attack at Wauhatchie.
Rockers column marched rapidly
along. the valley t,an divisions, under
t's'fe:isl 0. o. Howard. bivouacking
two miles FROM Browns Ferry. the
thIfd, General J. ". Gsaiy's. hating
int Wauhatchie. two ,niic, hack. as rear
guard. When Thomas ill Tex; troops
saw iiooses's ls:c;a coming they greeted
them with shouts from the hifltops.
Bands r.;;....-ea am. Dinners waved a
Z. welcome.
Lcnsstiest frcll Lookout mountain
detected Rockers march toward
Browns Ferry. Tie column appeared
10 he ;.Do@l 5000 strong. although it
WAS mitch center. Even that number
bodied d;inSer to, the Confeaerates il
i-ou&oet v;l!!ess:. LoliSstreet dispatched
General NJ NJ .te-l,i!.:S division to
EoVe, by stealth and fall upon Geary
! from the rear Wife liz, zen lay sleep
ing ia ,heif bivouac. General e. NJ.
Laws brigade. which had been driven
froin5tlie ferry by Hazen and lay at
s handiin the ii.ssant:iiES. marched in the
darkness to a hill lying in the inter
val between GearT al.d Towards bi,
voaacS.
AS often occurs in night attacks. the
assaiiaits failed in the program of two
simultaneous. separate assaults Mid
night passed and no signal was given
s ta. e. . a''u s.r1'M .,aars Long
10 order az ,,er t,un.s n srunort Ion.
k;,;s No ,n.,e :5arad AZ, antarnr;sa y
,7;4Hcr,t ono ,nd nv, e,f1.r,,,, hazard.
o;,s owing. &, tho ror.rb ..o.,ntry and
tho d,r,.na.. It.;.i,,r 10 ,,aor FROM
ien,;in. ba rofla sw,x. tn ,,ie head
sSo,,a rt4rs w,thn,;t ,o,yavar conntar-
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c.,,a FROM Ian,,inu ~ p,,4+nn :, 10
t,a.t fo,. tao co,,r,,,a ,,..,s, i, d,,.ar
of he;oo c,,t oes IN. ,7edara, co,,,,,,.,
w,,sct coma frorn IN. f..r,.v ~ the hal,,
of 1,e,rv
-.
Seoe-ssis Sti1 U L iAl1asA eoes.
The sound of hghtins on Geary's
line reachea the ears ii Genera, How
ard at Hooker's ca,ap. two miles away.
about ! O'Clock i'll the morning.. lie
quickly put the brigade Of Colonel
GRAND Smlth on the ROAD 10 Waa-
hStchie at double quick. Ihe seventy
third OHIO had VS. advance Followed
by the thirty third Massachusetts.
Aittfses 'rooi's hiie" th't there h;'d peeN
an lntefva' saTt the day before between
aearS and the rest OF their division
ana We're taken by complete surprise
at Feceiving Il scattering voiiey OF hul-
iess ~ ehelf races. lhese We're fiied
by Law s'ksGia.Shess.
eoloiie' si'ifh haiteh ms llle ana
sent our sSlfihishers also. who ioeat-
cd the enemy Laws brigade, on one
hill, the Ohio and Massachusetts men
i moved VI, in the darkness, and the
!! bold advance was met by another out
burst of firing. this time from the other
hill. The bullets raked the line length
wise. Colonel Smith wheeled his COM
! mand to face the new enemy and
charged up the hill.
!, sFortunately for the assailants. the
colfederatel fire passed over their
heads as they climbed the hill. When
/ within forty faces of the summit the