Oct. 28 1863 NIGHTTIME NASTINESS NOT NEGLIGIBLE NEWS The “Cracker Line” was the name for the supply line cut through to the Union army bottled up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It had barely been established, and in fact was still under threat by Confederate forces on Raccoon Mountain overlooking vital Brown’s Ferry. The threat was obvious to both sides, and on this night in the war, Gen. James Longstreet’s men came to try to knock it out. Brig. Gen. John W. Geary’s troops in the Lookout Valley and Wauhatchie were the defenders in this action, and despite intense action and being outnumbered, the Federal lines held. It was one of the rare nighttime actions of the war. Most combat was over by 4 a.m. The Cracker Line was not threatened again. findagrave/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5829279
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