You will co-operate with Sherman.

The troops in Chattanooga Valley should be well concentrated on your left flank, leaving only the necessary force to defend fortifications on the right and centre, and a movable column of one division in readiness to move wherever ordered.

This division should show itself as threateningly as possible on the most practicable line for making an attack up the valley.

Your effort then will be to form a junction with Sherman, making your advance well towards the northern end of Missionary Ridge, and moving as near simultaneously with him as possible.

The junction once formed and the ridge carried, communications will be at once established between the two armies by roads on the south bank of the river.