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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of Brigadier-General E. W. Pettus of operations at Lookout Mountain . (search)
Report of Brigadier-General E. W. Pettus of operations at Lookout Mountain.
headquarters Pettus's brigade, camp near Dalton, Ga., December 6, 1863.
Sir,—At half-past 12 o'clock on the 24th ultimo I was with my command on the top of Lookout Mountain, and was then ordered by Brigadier-General Brown, commanding Stevenson's division, to report, with three regiments of my command, to Brigadier-General Jackson, commanding at the Craven House.
I moved at once with the Twentieth, Thirty-first and Forty-sixth Alabama regiments, and at the head of the column I found Brigadier-General Jackson at the point where the road to the Craven House leaves the road leading down the mountain.
Communicating my orders, I was directed to hasten forward and reinforce Brigadier-General Moore at the Craven House.
On the way I met squads of Moore's and Walthall's brigades; and when about three hundred yards from the Craven House I found that that point had been carried by the enemy.
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