The Smoky Hill And Republican Union

A rebel paper states: This new move (the seizing of Brown's Ferry) upon the military chess-board, by which the enemy got possession of Lookout Valley, and the route to Bridgeport, was a masterly stroke. The conception was a brilliant one and the execution of it admirable and faultless. All the combinations, from the building of the pontoon boats, and floating them down the river at night, to the unexpected arrival of the forces at Bridgeport were perfect. Indeed, the railroad and river from Lookout Mountain to Bridgeport, and the valley of Raccoon Mountain, slipped from our hands so easily, or rather were taken from us so adroitly, that we hardly knew when it was done.