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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
lt because the unfavorable season was approaching, was one of the first things to which Grant turned his attention; and the advantages of the supreme power which had been vested in him became at once manifest. The materiel and provisions collected by his orders at St. Louis on light-draught boats came down the Mississippi, ascended the Ohio River, and found at the mouth of the Cumberland some gunboats detailed to convoy them along the entire length of that river to the small village of Big South Fork, situated at the head of navigation and in the very heart of the mountains. It was there that Burnside was directed to send his wagons. They had to go over a distance of sixty-two miles to bring these precious loads to Clinton, which is connected by rail with Knoxville. Three hundred thousand rations of salt meat and one million rations of vegetables, rice, sugar, and coffee were thus forwarded, but they arrived only after the siege, of which we shall presently relate the vicissitudes