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Lookout Valley, Nov 25th/63
Dear Wife
...yesterday a part of the 12th Corps and some of Grants old troop attacked
the rebs on Lookout mountain and drove them from the sides taking from 10
to 15 hundred prisoners during the night the rebs withdrew from the top the
yankees taking possession this morning it was a hazardous undertaking but
executed without a verry heavy loss to us.
I visited the top of the mountain this afternoon it is a lofty eminance rising
2000 feet from the plain of Chatanooga and from the summit a splendid view
of the surrounding country is obtained. I had just reached the top of the
mountain when a terrible engagement commenced on missionary ridge back of
Chattanooga it commenced about 4 oclock but the distance was such that I could
not with the naked eye tell the result and have not learned it yet, but I
heard that the 11th Corps was in and suffered severely, I wait with anxiety
to hear the particulars...
Thursday morning 26
I have herd this morning that our regiment was not in the fight yesterday
afternoon
Yours as ever
John C. Griswold