Special care should be taken by all officers to see that ammunition is not wasted or unnecessarily fired away.

You will call on the engineer department for such preparations as you may deem necessary for carrying your infantry and artillery over the creek.
U.S.GRANT, Major-General.
(*16) In this order authority was given for the troops to reform after taking the first line of rifle-pits preparatory to carrying the ridge.
(*17) CHATTANOOGA, November 24,1863.
MAJOR-GENERAL.

CEO.

H.THOMAS, Chattanooga General Sherman carried Missionary Ridge as far as the tunnel with only slight skirmishing.

His right now rests at the tunnel and on top of the hill, his left at Chickamauga Creek.