Excerpt from Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 1 of 39: April, 1914 The mere being on a hill, or even a mountain, does not guarantee security, as any old soldier knows. The real ques tion is, Can that hill or that mountain be flanked? And has the enemy men enough to do it? Thermopylae has been useful, 'ti: s true for hring the blood of school boys in fervid declamations, but if the Persians had flanked it in the first place, as they eventually did, they could have taken it without any loss at all worth mentioning. Now, that is the way the Confederates lost Lookout Moun tain and Missionary Ridge. They were flanked from both, and by overwhelmingly superior numbers of the enemy. It was foolish for General Bragg to put his men in a similar trap at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. But let me turn directly to my story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.