All Hell Can’t Stop Them The Battles for ChattanoogaーMissionary Ridge and Ringgold, November 24-27, 1863【電子書籍】[ David Powell ]

＜p＞To many of the Federal soldiers watching the Stars and Stripes unfurl atop Lookout Mountain on the morning of November 25, 1863, it seemed that the battle to relieve Chattanooga was complete. The Union Army of the Cumberland was no longer trapped in the city, subsisting on short rations and awaiting rescue; instead, they were again on the attack.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ulysses S. Grant did not share their certainty. For Grant, the job he had been sent to accomplish was only half-finished. Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army of Tennessee still held Missionary Ridge, with other Rebels under James Longstreet threatening more Federals in Knoxville, Tennessee. Grant’s greatest fear was that the Rebels would slip away before he could deliver the final blows necessary to crush Bragg completely.＜/p＞ ＜p＞That blow landed on the afternoon of November 25. Each of Grant’s assembled forcesーtroops led by Union Generals William T. Sherman, George H. Thomas, and Joseph Hookerーall moved to the attack. Stubbornly, Bragg．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る