What was the chattanooga campaign

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Charles D. Focused upon strategy and tactics, commanders and soldiers, as well as postwar commemorations, these essays offer a rich panorama of one of the most pivotal and decisive campaigns of the Civil War. Michael Parrish, Baylor University. Like its predecessor it is expertly edited to shed light on that key campaign in the heartland of the West in late Its ten chapters by ten different historians brightly illuminate the multiple aspects of that important campaign.

On October 18, Maj. Grant was given overall command of the Union armies in the west—the armies of the Tennessee, the Ohio, and the Cumberland. He accepted the opportunity offered by the War Department to relieve Rosecrans of command of the Army of the Cumberland and replace him with George H. Grant left for Chattanooga himself. Though still recovering from a fall with his horse, he traveled by rail as far as he could, then made the rough, mile trip through the mountains to arrive in Chattanooga on the rain-soaked evening of October William T.

Before those reinforcements arrived, there had been 45, Federals in Chattanooga; Bragg had 70, on the high ground above them. Bragg then reduced that 70, by dispatching Longstreet and his men to capture Knoxville, as Davis wished. It was a fourth of his strength. Grant learned of the move on November 5. He wanted to attack immediately, but Thomas pointed out that he had no horses to pull artillery into position, and Grant relented.

Sherman arrived at Chattanooga in mid-November. Grant planned to fight his way out of the siege by having him attack the northern flank along Missionary Ridge while Joe Hooker captured Lookout Mountain, the southern flank.

Thomas would distract Bragg and prevent him from reinforcing his flanks by feigning an attack on the center of the Confederate line. They would then roll up the Confederate line from north to south.