artillery, and a squadron of cavalry.

As soon as the last of the troops were over, work on the bridge
was commenced and finished at a little after four o'clock in the
afternoon. For an hour or so in the morning the work progressed
under an artillery fire from the rebel batteries on Lookout Mountain.
Our losses were six killed, twenty-three wounded, and nine missing.
The rebels lost six men captured and six of their dead were buried
by our men. Our forces captured twenty beeves, six pontoons and
some two thousand bushels of corn. The bridge was completed and
the position held until the 28th, when Hooker's command arrived. No
attempt was made by Bragg to dislodge this force or to destroy the
bridge. Hooker moved on the road by the base of Raccoon Mountain
into Lookout Valley, driving the rebel pickets before him, and
occupied the roads to Kelley's and Brown's Ferries through the
valley. Later in the afternoon of the 28th, as Hooker's troops
pushed down the valley, Howard's corps in the advance was met with a
sharp volley of musketry from a wooded ridge near the Wills Valley
Railroad. Two brigades of Howard's command were deployed, and
advancing, drove the rebels from their cover with the loss of a
few of our men. As the enemy retreated they burned the railroad
bridge over Lookout Creek. Hooker then went into camp with Howard's
corps at six o'clock in the afternoon about a mile up the valley
from Brown's Ferry. Here he learned of the movement to this place
and of the building of the bridge.

With the object of holding the road to Kelley's Ferry, Geary's
division was ordered to encamp near Wauhatchie, some three miles
up the valley from Howard's position. This created two camps--the
latter holding the Brown Ferry road--each camp separate and picketed