Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 3, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for November 21st or search for November 21st in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: May 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
ng the enemy's left flank in the direction of Trenton, crossing at Brown's Ferry, up the north bank of the Tennessee, to near the mouth of South Chickamauga, where they were kept concealed from the enemy until they were ready to force a crossing.--Pontoons for throwing a bridge across the river were built and placed in North Chickamauga, near its mouth, a few miles further up, without attracting the attention of the enemy. It was expected we would be able to effect the crossing on the 21st of November; but, owing to heavy rains, Sherman was unable to get up until the afternoon of the 23d, and then only with Gens Morgan's, L. Smith's, John E Smith's, and Hugh Ewing's divisions of the 15th corps, under command of Major Gen Frank P Blair, of his army. The pontoon bridge at Brown's Ferry having been broken up by the drift consequent upon the rise in the river and rafts sent down by the enemy, the other division (Osterhans's) was detained on the south side, and was on the night of the 23