Howard marched on to Brown's Ferry, while Geary, who commanded a division in the 12th corps, stopped three miles south.

The pickets of the enemy on the river below were now cut off, and soon came in and surrendered.
The river was now opened to us from Lookout valley to Bridgeport.
Between Brown's Ferry and Kelly's Ferry the Tennessee runs through a narrow gorge in the mountains, which contracts the stream so much as to increase the current beyond the capacity of an ordinary steamer to stem it.

To get up these rapids, steamers must be cordelled; that is, pulled up by ropes from the shore.

But there is no difficulty in navigating the stream from Bridgeport to Kelly's Ferry.

The latter point is only eight miles from Chattanooga and connected with it by a good wagon-road, which runs through a low pass in the Raccoon Mountains on the south side of the river to Brown's Ferry, thence on the north side to the river opposite Chattanooga.