CHAPTER XXXII.

FAILURE TO FOLLOW SUCCESS.

Longstreet differs with General Bragg as to Movements of Pursuit--The Confederates on Lookout Mountain--Federals gain Comfortable Positions around it--Superior Officers of Bragg's Command call for his Removal--Bragg seeks Scapegoats--President Davis visits the Army--Tests the Temper of the Officers towards Bragg--He offers the Command to Longstreet--He declines--His Reasons--General Bragg ignores Signal-Service Reports and is surprised--General Joe Hooker's Advance--Night Attack on Lookout Mountain--Colonel Bratton's Clever Work--Review of the Western Movement and Combination--It should have been effected in May instead of September--Inference as to Results had the First Proposition been promptly acted upon 461