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Battle of Chattanooga.
Nov. 23 - 25, 1863.
Gen. Grant had under his command for the Battle of Chattanooga the Army of the Cumberland, Gen. George H. Thomas; the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps, Army of the Potomac, Gen. Joseph Hooker, and four divisions of the Army of the Tennessee, Gen. W. T. Sherman. Gen. Hooker's command was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland. On the afternoon of Nov. 23rd, Sheridan's and Wood's divisions of the Fourth corps, supported by the Eleventh corps on the left, carried Orchard Knob and Indian Hill to the south of it, constituting the enemy's central line through the plain. On the afternoon of the 24th, Gen. Sherman with three divisions of the Army of the Tennessee and Davis' division of the Fourteenth corps, having crossed the Tennessee River at the mouth of the Chickamauga during the night of the 23rd, occupied and fortified the north end of Missionary Ridge. On the same day, Hooker's forces in Lookout Valley, consisting of Geary's division of the.... |