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Part of American Civil War

Chattanooga campaign

November 25, 1863 · Chattanooga

Result Union victory

Union armies under Ulysses S. Grant broke the Confederate siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The victories at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge opened the way for the invasion of Georgia.

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Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
Ulysses S. Grant military commander William Tecumseh Sherman military commander Joseph Hooker military commander William S. Rosecrans military commander George H. Thomas military commander
John C. Breckinridge military commander James Longstreet military commander Braxton Bragg military commander William J. Hardee military commander

Strength and losses

Wounded
4,722

Units

Army of the Cumberland Army of the Tennessee Union Army 14th Ohio Infantry Regiment 2nd Ohio Infantry Regiment 33rd Ohio Infantry Regiment 147th Regiment (United States) 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment (Union)
Army of Tennessee 8th Confederate Cavalry Regiment 1st Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion

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