The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of Lookout Mountain

ISBN: 9781985452589
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*Includes pictures of the battle's important generals.
*Includes accounts of the fighting written by important generals like Grant, Sherman, Bragg, Longstreet, and more.
*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a Table of Contents.

“Viewed from whatever point, Lookout Mountain, with its high palisaded crest, and its steep, rugged, rocky, and deeply-furrowed slopes, presented an imposing barrier to our advance." – Fighting Joe Hooker

In late September 1863, the Confederates began laying siege to the Union Army of the Cumberland around Chattanooga in what would be their last gasp for supremacy in the West. Following the devastating Union defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, the army and its shaken commander, General William S. Rosecrans, began digging in around the city and waiting for reinforcements to arrive. Meanwhile, the Confederate Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg, took the surrounding heights, including Missionary Ridge to the east and Lookout Mountain to the southwest, allowing them control over the vital rail and river supply lines needed by the Union forces in the city. Bragg planned to lay siege to the city and starve the Union forces into surrendering.
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