{"id":2741,"date":"2010-07-12T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2010-07-13T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T15:56:08","slug":"battle-of-chattanooga-november-23-25-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/12\/battle-of-chattanooga-november-23-25-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Chattanooga: November 23-25, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On November 23-25, 1863 the Battle of Chattanooga took place in Hamilton County<\/a>, Tennessee.\u00a0 Beginning in late September, the Confederate forces under the direction of General Braxton Bragg\u00a0<\/a> placed Major General William Rosecrans<\/a>\u2019s Union forces under siege and cut off its supply line.\u00a0 In October and November, Union General Ulysses S. Grant<\/a> and the Union soldiers were able to capture Orchard Knob, Lookout Mountain, and also forced the Confederates off of Missionary Ridge.\u00a0 The National Park Service\u2019s website provides an overview\u00a0<\/a>of the battle as well as information<\/a>\u00a0on planning a visit to the battlefield.\u00a0 The website also offers two pamphlets that may be useful: The Campaign for Chattanooga<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(1932) and Chickamauga and Chattanooga Battlefields<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1956). The battle could be connected to a lesson on Sherman\u2019s March to the Sea in 1864 <\/a>since Union General William T.\u00a0Sherman<\/a>\u00a0was able to use Chattanooga as the base for his march as a result of the Union victory in 1863.\u00a0 Grant commented on Chattanooga in his memoirs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cSherman had, as already stated, crossed to the north side of the Tennessee River at Brown\u2019s ferry, in full view of the troops on Missionary Ridge until they met their assault.\u00a0 Bragg knew it was Sherman\u2019s troops that had crossed, and, they being so long out of view, may have supposed that they had gone up the north bank of the Tennessee River to the relief of Knoxville and that Longstreet was therefore in danger.\u00a0 But the first great blunder, detaching Longstreet, cannot be accounted for in any way I know of.\u00a0 If he had captured Chattanooga, East Tennessee would have fallen without a struggle.\u00a0 It would have been a victory for us to have got our army away from Chattanooga safely.\u00a0 It was a manifold greater victory to drive away the besieging army; a still greater one to defeat that army in his chosen ground and nearly annihilate it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some other resources that may be helpful to browse are Battles and Leaders of the Civil War<\/a><\/em>\u00a0which gives a firsthand account of the campaign and battle from General Grant, and Three Days Battle at Chattanooga<\/a><\/em>\u00a0which provides a copy of the dispatch on the battle from General Meigs<\/a>\u00a0to the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton<\/a>.\u00a0 The Library of Congress\u2019s website contains a few different letters with transcriptions, including one <\/a>from General Grant reporting the beginning of the conflict and one<\/a> reporting its end.\u00a0 Also, the Civil War Preservation Trust\u2019s website provides historical articles on the battle, including \u201cChattanooga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge Battles<\/a>\u201d that gives a detailed summary of the actions and consequences for the Union and Confederate forces at each location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 23-25, 1863 the Battle of Chattanooga took place in Hamilton County, Tennessee.\u00a0 Beginning in late September, the Confederate forces under the direction of General Braxton Bragg\u00a0 placed Major General William Rosecrans\u2019s Union forces under siege and cut off its supply line.\u00a0 In October and November, Union General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,172,47,174],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-letters-diaries","category-places-to-visit","category-recent-scholarship","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}