CHATTANOOGA DURING THE WINTER OF 1863-64, LOUISVILLE JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 19, 1864

CHATTANOOGA

Looks to-day no more like it appeared when we first entered it, than a deserted, tranquil city like a humming commercial metropolis.  The spacious depot proper, the doors and entrances of which were stoutly barricaded with high breastworks of logs, loop-holed for a stubborn resistance, has not been cleared of every incumbrance, repaired and refitted, and mammoth piles of forage and supplies tower to the very roof.  Hundreds of busy workmen are unloading the freighted trains, and, outside the building, are long lines of wagons waiting their turn to be loaded for the camps.  Troops of soldiers strayed from the camps are loitering about the depots and swarming the streets.  Not a building in the city is unoccupied.  Trade stores, sutler shops, bakeries, news depots, and the like are continually thronged and always selling at heavy profits.

Louisville Journal, February 19, 1864