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A S MONDAY. JULY 29. 1963 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD. OREGON a?!-Jfm'T"t 't-jSS WAS THE U hV iiJ! A to Ml aw 1A nwwT- fir. Ann Sothern Given Hospital Treatment fir I .jvi JW-.s- ,t, 4,-.. hOOVEH'S GAP ANTAGONISTS - Gen. Braxton Bragg, left, of the Confederacy, and Union Gen. William Rosecrans, right, were the antagonists in the battle of Hoo ver's Gap In 1863. The battle of the Gap (UPI) came as the Union force flanked the South erners on the right. It was part of nine days of fighting during which Rosecrans forced Bragg out of fortified positions across the Tennessee river Into Alabama. The Battle of Hoover's Gap By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent July 1863 was by all odds the greatest month to date of the Civil War for the Federal armies. Not only had the battle of Gettysburgh been won and Vlcksburfi, Miss., captured but the Rebel Army of Ten nessee had been' maneuvered out of the state by MaJ. Gen. William S. Rosecrans. - Port Hudson, La., fell of its own weight July 9 to MaJ. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks as soon as the garrison could be convinced of the word sent across the lines by Union sol diers that Vicksburg had fall en. The military picture look ed black for the Confederacy. MaJ. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant stood victorious at Vicksburg with about 70,000 men. General Banks with about 40,000 camped farther down the Mississippi River at the He of their victory. North Winning General Rosecrans seemed poised with 30,000 men to wrest strategic Chattanooga, Tenn., from Gen. Braxton Bragg. The North appeared well on the way to winning the war as July came to a close. Now the time had come, It seemed, to apply the crusher In the East and in the West and the Confederacy would be beaten to its knees, its armies defeated, its 29-month-old government dispersed. A tattoo of quick blows and the citizen soldiers could cat Thanksgiving dinner at home. So it seemed . , , but that wasn't the way It turned out. -Instead of bagging Gen. Robert E. Lee's army in Mary land, MaJ. Gen. George Gor don Meade let it escape to fight another day. -Instead of Grant slanting southeast and clearing out the rest of Mississippi and cap turing Mobile, Ala., nn im portant port, in concert with Banks' army, as he suggested to Washington, his army was dispersed bit by bit until he was down to the three corps with which he had started the Vicksburg campaign. -Instead of beating Bragg around Chattanooga Rnsc crans walked into a trap that snapped shut a month hence on Chlckamauga Creek. There was no central com mand to coordinate the tnv mens" manpower and Indust trial might of the North and bring it to focus on the weak er resources of the South. So the piecemeal war went on. Rosecrans in maneuvering Bragg out of Tennessee achieved one of those cheap and easy victories so dear to the hearts of many Civil War , generals - tactical brilliance- territory won - opponents' armies left Intact - nothing decisive. The Army of the Cumber land, Rosecrans' command, had sat like a bump on a log at Murfrecsboro, Tenn., since the New Year when he had won a costly victory over Bragg at Stones River, Prodded for Action All spring Washington prod ded him incessantly for ac tion. Rosecrans replied by de manding more men, more horses, more guns. The wea ther was cold. The weather was hot. It was raining or It was snowing. The roads were belly deep In mud or so dry any movement would signal the enemy with pillars of dust by day. So ran Rosecrans' communications to Washing ton. "Old Rosy" was a rough tongued man and often his temper showed through. Not until June 23 could he be persuaded to move against time to good advantage to perfect his troop training ant to erect formidable works at ShelbyvilJe and Tullahoma i Tenn., south of Murfrecsboro. A direct assault on these works would be suicidal. Both Bragg and Rosecrans knew that. At the moment Bragg had 40,(165 men. Rosecrans had 50,617. Braids cavalry was superior and he had more of it. The road from Murfrecs boro lo Shelby ville along the Nashville St Chattanooga rail road was the easier one. The one to the southeast was hard er with hills and only farm roads. Rosecrans sent his cavalry under Brig. Gen. Dnvld S. Stanley along the Shclbyvllle road. Stanley staged a good show. He kindled long lines of campfircs, beat drums and blew bugles along the line as if the whole army was advanc ing. His ruse worked. The Con federates prepared to fight there. Meanwhile the main Union army marched over the hills Four regiments led the ad vance. One of them was the 123rd Illinois Mounted Infan try. Their first fight was 12 miles out from Murfrecsboro. Maj. James A. Connolly of the 123rd wrote the story of fight at Hoover's Gap. ". . . we were ncaring the formidable 'Hoover. Gap' which it was supposed would cost a great many lives to pass through, and our brig ade commander determined to surprise the enemy if pos sible, by a rapid march, and make a bold dash through the 'Gap' and hold It . . .until the rest of the army could get up. . . Soon the 123 rd surprised and routed a regiment of Con federate cavalry "and wo reached the celebrated 'Gap' on the run." The Gap was only, wide enough for two wagons to pass and ran for two miles. The 123rd made it at a gal lop. At the end Rebel artillery opened against it. The 123rd Johnson City, N. Y. - H'PD -Actress Ann Southern may be released today from Wil son Memorial hospital where she was admitted during the week end for treatment of dehydration. "It al( depends on how she feels and what the doctors' say," a hospital spokesman said. "But she's feeling much better." Miss Southern, 51. entered the hospital on Saturday suf fering from dehydration, a condition in which there is a lack of moisture in the body tissues. 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"Presently the enemy got near enough lo us to make a charge on our battery," Con nolly wrote, "and on they came; our men were on their feet in an Instant and a ter rible fire from the 'Spencers' caused the advancing regi ment to reel and Its colors fell to the ground but in an in stant their colors were up again and on they came, think ing to reach the batlcry be fore our guns could be re loaded, but they 'reckoned without their host' they did'nt know we had the 'Spencers' and their charging yell was answered by another terrible volley, and another and an other without cessation, until the poor regiment was cut lo I pieces and but few men of the i 20th Tennessee will ever! charge again. . . " (The Spencers Connolly I wrote about were seven-shot I repeating rifles, lust then be-! Ing Issued to Union soldiers. They were deadly against men ; with muzzle-loaders.) The 12;ird held the pass un til the infantry arrived. MaJ. Gen. George H. 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