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The Daily Dispatch: May 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
Stevenson, Ala, to Chattanooga, Tenn, and his fears that Gen Rosecrans would fall back to the north side of the Tennessee river. To guard farther against the possibility of the Secretary's fears, I also telegraphed to Maj Gen. Thomas on the 19th October from Louisville, to hold Chattanooga at all hazards; that I would be there as soon as possible. To which be replied on the same date, "I will hold the town till we starve." Proceeding directly to Chattanooga, I arrived there on the 23d October, and found that General Thomas had, immediately on being placed in command of the Department of the Cumberland, ordered the concentration of Maj Gen Hooker's command at Bridgeport, preparatory to Securing the river and main wagon road between that place and Brown's Ferry, immediately below Lookout Mountain. The next morning after my arrival at Chattanooga, in company with Thomas and Brig Gen. W. F. Smith Chief Engineer, I made a reconnaissance of Brown's Ferry and the hills on the south