but three or four men, to break the Nashville and Chattanooga

railroad between Chattanooga and the enemy's position at Tullahoma by

burning the bridges in Crow Creek valley from its head to Stevenson,

Alabama, and then the great bridge across the Tennessee River at

Bridgeport. Feeling confident that I could persuade Card to

undertake the perilous duty, I broached the contemplated project to

him, and he at once jumped at the opportunity of thus distinguishing

himself, saying that with one of his brothers and three other loyal

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