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uttered his audacious prophecy, there floated onthe morning breeze the lordly stars and stripes.Loud shouts of victory, cheer after cheer, roseup melodiously together from the army below, 1 inearnest of the crowning triumph whereof the airwas full of presage.
Victory came, but not in the way that Granthad expected. According to his plan, Hooker wasto keep the enemy occupied on Lookout Mountain,while Sherman was to turn his right flank andsever his communications with Chickamauga sta-tion, and all this was to be accomplished on the24th. Now Hooker had done more .
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and Sherman less than was on the pectedsitua-programme. Sherman had met with tlon ’unforeseen obstacles, while Hooker had capturedthe mountain, so that the Confederates driventhence were at liberty to be transferred to Bragg’sright, there to strengthen the resistance to Sher-man. At daybreak the movement of troops north-ward along Missionary Ridge could plainly bedetected from the Union lines.
I am particular in emphasizing these points,because a few years ago there was a visible tend-ency toward the growth of a “ Grant legend,”in which that general’s reputation was made to
1 Cist, The Army of the Cumberland , p. 251; Hazen, Narrativeof Military Service , p. 172.