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and otliers overlooking the engagement from 

 the rami^arts of Fort Wood. The next day, 

 as all the world knows, Hooker's men carried 

 Lookout Mountain, while the multitude be- 

 low, hearing the commotion, wondered what 

 could be going on above them, till suddenly 

 the clouds lifted, and behold, the Confeder- 

 ates were in full flight. Then, says an eye- 

 witness, there " went up a mighty cheer from 

 the thirty thousand in the valley, that was 

 heard above the battle by their comrades on 

 the mountain." On the day following, for 

 events followed each other fast in that spec- 

 tacular campaign. Grant and Thomas had 

 established themselves on Orchard Knob, 

 and late in the afternoon the Union army, 

 exceeding its orders, stormed Missionary 

 Eidge, put the army of Bragg to sudden 

 rout, and completed one of the really deci- 

 sive victories of the war. 



For a man who wishes to feel the memory 

 of that stirring time there is no better place 

 than Orchard Knob, where Grant stood and 

 anxiously watched the course of the battle, 

 a battle of which he declared that it was 

 won " under the most trying circumstances 

 presented during the war." For my own 



