Identifier: mississippivalle00fisk (find matches)
Title: The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Subjects: Mississippi River Valley -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Southwest, Old -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he point of Lookout Mountain theriver makes a great bend, enclosing a peninsulasome three miles in length by less than a mile inwidth, known as Moccasin Point. Opposite thelower side of this peninsula a narrow range ofhills runs along close by the waters edge, with aTh B S^P ^* Browns Ferry. A road fromFerry opposite Chattanooga runs across the eme. neck of the peninsula to Browns Ferry, and thence continues nearly southward along adeep gorge between the narrow range of hills andthe base of Raccoon Mountain until, as it entersLookout valley, it curves westward and passesover a depression in Raccoon Mountain to KellysFerry. Over this same depression runs the wa-gon-road from Bridgeport to Wauhatchie in Look-out valley, and also the railroad from Bridgeportto Chattanooga. Now the railroad, passing closeunder the point of Lookout Mountain and throughthe rebel lines, could not of course be wrestedfrom the enemy without storming the mountain.But the banks of the river below Kellys Ferry to
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