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Chattanooga Campaign
The
Chattanooga Campaign
was a series of maneuvers and battles in October and November 1863, during the
American Civil War
. Following the defeat of
Maj. Gen.
William S. Rosecrans
'
Union
Army of the Cumberland
at the
Battle of Chickamauga
in September, the
Confederate
Army of Tennessee
under
Gen.
Braxton Bragg
besieged Rosecrans and his men by occupying key high terrain around
Chattanooga, Tennessee
. Maj. Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant
was given command of Union forces in the
West
and significant reinforcements began to arrive with him in Chattanooga from Mississippi and the
Eastern Theater
.
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