Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA.

Most Remarkable and Sanguinary c( Modern War«p It was on the afternoon of Sept. 18 1863, that the first shot was fired. All that day Bragg, who had been flanked oil of Chattanooga, had been trying to gd his army between Rosencrans *and tl4

City of Chattanooga, and Rosecrans. wl | had sent his army South in pursuit cl Bragg, having discovered Bragg’s design, was making an equally desperate effoii to concentrate his scattered divisions be< tween Bragg and the city. At that timi the forest was primeval in denseness, ami the underbrush so thick that it was im« possible to see more than 100 yards ahead. Ignorant of each other’s exact location, the two armies came nearer to each other. At daybreak on Saturday morning. Sept 10, they came face to face in this forest of pines and Indian-like jungle of underbrush, and by 7:30 o’clock that morning the most remarkable battle of the civil war was raging in all its fury. The losses were appalling. In the next forty-eight hours 26,000 men were killed, and neither side had won. At the end ol two days both armies withdrew from thi field. General Rosecrans retaining pop session of Chattanooga, the objectiv* point of the campaign. General Rose* crans had in action thirty brigades of im fantry, five of cavalry, one of mounted infantry and thirty-three batteries, aggre* gating 56,160 officers and men. General Bragg had thirty-five brigade* of infantry, ten of cavalry and about thirty batteries, aggregating probably 65,000 men. The percentage of mortality' for the tima of fighting is claimed to be greater than known in any battle in ancient or modern history. ’

Worth la dead, bnt his sop continue* the business—a clear caae of the survival of the fittest *

SPECIMEN MONUMENT TO THE UNITI STATES CAVALRY.