Posted on 12/03/2023 6:43:46 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
From our files of Richmond papers to the 30th nit., we make the following exceedingly interesting extracts:
THE LATE BATTLES AT CHATTANOOGA.
The following are the only official dispatches from Gen. BRAGG, which are published in the Richmond papers:
BRAGG'S OFFICIAL DISPATCHES.
MISSION RIDGE, Nov. 24.
To Gen. S. Cooper:
We have had a prolonged struggle for Lookout Mountain, to-day, and sustained considerable loss in one division. Elsewhere the enemy has only manoeuvred for position.
(Signed,) BRAXTON BRAGG, Gen.
CHICKAMAUGA, Nov. 25, 1863.
General S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector-General:
After several unsuccessful assaults on our lines to-day, the enemy carried the left centre about four o'clock. The whole left soon gave way in considerable disorder. The right maintained its ground, and repelled every attack. I am withdrawing all to this point. (Signed,) BRAXTON BRAGG.
From the very brief telegraphic dispatches to the Richmond papers, we take the following accounts of the late battles at Chattanooga:
ATLANTA, Wednesday, Nov. 25.
The enemy, yesterday, made a desperate attempt to take Lookout Mountain. At 12 o'clock M., when our informant left, the battle was still raging. His advance on Monday gained possession of two small hills in our front. Yesterday morning he opened all his batteries, and there was heavy skirmishing along the entire line. At noon an infantry assault was made on Lockout Mountain and vigorously kept up for an hour by the enemy, without result, when they fell back, our troops holding their own. Our informant says that when he was leaving, the fire of the enemy had again opened on Lookout Mountain. The temper of our troops is described us full of grit.
A special to the Intelligencer says that the enemy were repulsed on our right by PATTON's. ANDERSON's and HINDMAN's divisions, with heavy loss.
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News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 5
Editorial: The Lesson of Our Victory – 5-6
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The Navy Department – Construction of New War Vessels – 7
Editorial: Groans from the Rebels – 7
Extensive Theft of Watches and Jewelry – 7
Amusements this Evening – 7
“News from the South: Bragg Denounced as Incompetent for Any Command – 2-3”
He’d fit right in under our SecDef and CIC.
An interesting twist to the renaming of an AMERICAN fort: the anti-U.S. INSURRECTIONIST it was after was an incompetent?
Methinks you don’t name a military base after a failure.
Now, it’s “Ft. Liberty.
Fayetteville is still the same,
But it doesn’t say Ft. Liberty on your DD Form 214,
Braxton Bragg wouldn’t serve in the U. S. Army of today.
Nether would I.
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