File:The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14782765953).jpg
DescriptionThe photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14782765953).jpg
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' Text Appearing After Image: OPENING THE CRACKER LINE The U. S. S. Chattanooga was the first steamboat built by the Federals on the upper Tennessee River. Hadthe gunboats on the Ohio been able to come up the Tennessee River nearly three hundred miles, to the assist-ance of Rosecrans, Bragg could never have bottled him up in Chattanooga. Tiul bctwccii Florence andDecatur, Alabama, Muscle Shoals lay in the stream, making the river impassable. While IJraggs jjickcts in-vested the railroad and river, supplies could not be brought uj) from Bridgeport; and besides, with the excep-tion of one small steamboat (the Dunbar), the Federals had no boats on the river. General W. F. Smith,Chief Engineer of the Army of the Cumberland, had established a saw-mill with an old engine at Bridgeportfor the purpose of getting out lumber from logs rafted down the river, with which to construct pontoons.Here Captain Arthur Edwards, Assistant Quartermaster, had been endeavoring since the siege liegan tobuild a steamboat consisting of a fl
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