Vol. XII.
Richmond, Va. January-February, 1884
Nos. 1-2.
Cursory Sketch of the Campaigns of General Bragg.
By Major E.T. Sykes
THE ARMY AT DALTON.
The "Army of Tennessee" fell back and went into winter quarters at Dalton, Georgia, forty miles distant from Chattanooga, and where the Georgia State road connects with the East Tennessee railroad.[1] Soon after, General Bragg, appreciating his relations to
- ↑ Extract from a letter of General Bragg to the writer, dated February 8th, 1873: "In our retreat from Missionary Ridge, the enemy could make but a feeble pursuit, for want of artillery horses (Grant's report). At the mountain gorge near Ringgold, I believed he could be successfully repulsed, and the army quickly withdrawn. General Cleburn, one of the best and truest soldiers in our cause, was placed at that point in command of the rear guard. Late at night, hours after all the army was at rest, my information being all in, I called for a reliable confidential staff officer, and gave him verbal directions to ride immediately to Cleburn, about three (3) miles in my rear, at this mountain gorge, and give him my positive orders to hold his position tip to a named hour the next day, and if attacked, to defend the
