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after a battle. Yankee industry is never asleep. There, on 

 Lookout rock, we found of course also a photographer, who 

 photographed groups of visitors and sold views taken from the 

 rock. I still have one representing that rock itself, with 

 General Hooker sitting on it. 



After havinof feasted our eves to our hearts' content, we 

 selected a most beautiful spot, and lay down on the moss to 

 enjoy the exquisite breakfast which General Steedman had sent 

 up, together with a good supply of champagne, which made us 

 all very merry. 



We returned to Chattanooga at seven o'clock p.m., and found 

 a great company assembled at our hotel, 6ut retired early. 



" J hough amusing myself as well as I could, I did not forget 

 our sick people in the hospital, and next morning Mrs. 

 Corvin and myself paid a visit to the Sanitary Commission, 

 from whom we received a great quantity of highly acceptable 

 things. Though the hospitals around Chattanooga, which were 

 mostly on the healthier hill-side, required a good deal, the pro- 

 visions of the Commission seemed inexhausiible, and they 

 never grew tired of giving with full hands. 



Having attended' to this duty, we paid General Steedman a 

 farewell visit and took lunch with him, after which we said 

 good-bye to him and returned to the hotel, where several of the 

 generals were presented to us. They were all rather busy, for 

 we saw five thousand men passing our window on their way to 

 the railroad ; they were the reinforcements for Decatur. We 

 left Chattanooga at four o'clock p.m., and arrived in Bridgeport 

 without accident. 



Bad weather set in, and the ground around our house became 

 very soft. We felt rather chilly, for the wet damped our clothes 

 and beds, and warm punch in the evening was very acceptable. 

 "We had always a few guests, and the commander of the port, 

 Colonel Taylor, came frequently, and we had a rubber. On 

 Sunday v/e went to church in Bridgeport and heard rather 

 pro.sy sermons, and oh the other days we had enough to do 

 with our hospital, which had already assumed quite a different 

 aspect. 



Towards the end of November news was received of the in 

 judicious move of the rebel General Hood, who wanted to at- 

 tack Tennessee, and perhaps Kentucky and Ohio, in order to 

 compel General Sherman to give up his dangerous plans. ThiS 



