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Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur, Wife Of Union General and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions at the Battle of Missionary Ridge; Chattanooga Campaign: Maps (Battle of Missionary Ridge) Archived 2013-12-09 at the Wayback Machine, histories, photos, and preservation news (Civil War Trust) Ohio Students repair Civil War monument on Missionary Ridge
Missionary Ridge, as viewed from Lookout Mountain.The ridge is the sharp divide in the middle of the picture. The Smoky Mountains are in the far background.. Missionary Ridge is a geographic feature in Chattanooga, Tennessee, site of the Battle of Missionary Ridge, a battle in the American Civil War, fought on November 25, 1863.
The park was temporarily renamed "Camp George H. Thomas" in honor of the union army commander during the Civil War battle at the site. The park's proximity to the major rail hub at Chattanooga and its large tracts of land made it a logical marshalling area for troops being readied for service in Cuba and other points south. [9] [10]
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 ...
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
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Western and Atlantic Railroad Tunnel at Tunnel Hill; Ringgold Gap Battlefield, gap between White Oak Mountain and Taylor Ridge through which railway runs, site of November 1863 battle protecting Confederate retreat after Battle of Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga; Ringgold Depot; Ringgold Commercial Historic District; marker at milepost 116.3
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