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Rear-Guard Heroism at Ringgold:
Flushed with victory, Union forces pursued Bragg's battered and retreating Army of Tennessee. On November 27, General Hooker's units caught up with the Confederate rear near Ringgold, Ga.
There, General Cleburne's men bravely repulsed the Union attack long enough for the rest of the Army of Tennessee to safely continue its retreat to Dalton, Georgia, along the railroad line to Atlanta. The victorious Union armies returned to Chattanooga, now safely theirs. The struggle for Chattanooga was over. |