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The Chattanooga campaign [7] was a series of maneuvers and battles in October and November 1863, during the American Civil War.Following the defeat of Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans's Union Army of the Cumberland at the Battle of Chickamauga in September, the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg besieged Rosecrans and his men by occupying key high terrain around Chattanooga ...
National Geographic Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle. National Geographic, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4262-0347-3. Kennedy, Frances H., ed. The Civil War Battlefield Guide. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. ISBN 0-395-74012-6. Korn, Jerry, and the Editors of Time-Life Books.
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Second Battle of Chattanooga (August 21, 1863), Union artillery bombardment that convinced Bragg to evacuate the city; Chattanooga Campaign or the Battles for Chattanooga, (November 23–25, 1863) Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant, fighting alongside General George Henry Thomas, defeated Confederate General Braxton Bragg
On August 16, 1863, Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, commander of the Army of the Cumberland, launched a campaign to take Chattanooga, Tennessee. Col. John T. Wilder's brigade of the Union 4th Division, XIV Army Corps, marched to a location northeast of Chattanooga where the Confederates could see them, reinforcing Gen. Braxton Bragg's expectations of a Union attack on the town from that direction.
Clinton July 18. At Big Black until September 27. Moved to Memphis, then marched to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 27-November 21. Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad October 20–29. Cherokee Station October 21 and 29. Cane Creek October 26. Tuscumbia October 26–27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23–27. Lookout Mountain ...
The Battle of Brown's Ferry was an engagement of the American Civil War which took place on October 27, 1863, in Hamilton County, Tennessee. [1] During the battle, two Union brigades drove Confederate sharpshooters from the Tennessee River, which allowed supplies to start arriving to the Union army at Chattanooga via the "Cracker Line".
The following units and commanders fought in the Chattanooga–Ringgold campaign of the American Civil War on the Confederate side. The Union order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization [1] on November 20, 1863 [2] and the reports. [3]