Posted on 11/29/2023 6:08:08 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Nov. 28.
An official statement of our losses in the recent battles at Chattanooga was received here this morning. Onr casualties in killed and wounded on the 23d, 24th and 25th, were but little over-three thousand at the storming of Lookout Mountain, and at the assault upon Missionary Ridge about two hundred.
The report of our losses on the 26th is not yet received.
Our wounded are all under cover and well cared for. Hospital and all other supplies are abundant.
DETAILED OFFICIAL DISPATH.
HEADQUARTERS, CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 26, 1863.
SIR: On the 23d instant, at 11 A. M., Gen. GRANT ordered a demonstration against Mission Ridge, to develop the force holding it. The troops marched out, formed in order, and advanced in line of battle, as if on parade.
The rebels watched the formation and movement from their picket lines and rifle-pits, and from the summits of Mission Ridge, five hundred feet above us, and thought it was a review and drill, so openly and deliberately, so regular, was it all done.
The line advanced, preceded by skirmishers, and at 2 o'clock P.M. reached our picket lines and opened a ralling volley upon the rebel pickets, who replied and run into their advanced line of rifle-pits. After them went our skirmishers and into them, along the centre of the line of 25,000 troops which Gen. THOMAS had so quickly displayed, until we opened fire.
Prisoners assert that they thought the whole movement was a review and general drill, and that it was too late to send to their camps for reinforcements, and that they were overwhelmed by force of numbers. It was a surprise in open daylight.
At 3 P.M., the important advanced position of Orchard Knob and the lines right and left were in our possession,
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