these circumstances Bragg could have taken the different corps in

detail, and it is strange that he did not, even before receiving his

reinforcements, turn on McCook in Broomtown Valley and destroy him.

Intelligence that Bragg would give battle began to come to us from

various sources as early as the l0th of September, and on the 11th

McCook found that he could not communicate with Thomas by the direct

road through Broomtown Valley; but we did not begin closing in toward

Chattanooga till the 13th, and even then the Twentieth Corps had

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