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Battle of Lookout Mountain
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Battle of Lookout Mountain
The
Battle of Lookout Mountain
was fought November 24, 1863, as part of the
Chattanooga Campaign
of the
American Civil War
. Union forces under
Maj. Gen.
Joseph Hooker
assaulted
Lookout Mountain
,
Chattanooga, Tennessee
, and defeated
Confederate
forces commanded by Maj. Gen.
Carter L. Stevenson
. Lookout Mountain was one engagement in the Chattanooga battles between Maj. Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant
's
Military Division of the Mississippi
and the Confederate
Army of Tennessee
, commanded by
Gen.
Braxton Bragg
. It drove in the Confederate left flank and allowed Hooker's men to assist in the
Battle of Missionary Ridge
the following day, which routed Bragg's army, lifting the siege of Union forces in Chattanooga, and opening the gateway into the
Deep South
.
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