12 Facts About Chattanooga Campaign

Chattanooga Campaign was a vital rail hub, and an important manufacturing center for the production of iron and coal, located on the navigable Tennessee River.

Bragg did not cut off the escape routes to Chattanooga Campaign and did not organize a pursuit that might have seriously damaged the Union army before it could regroup and prepare its defenses in the city.

In Chattanooga Campaign, Rosecrans was stunned by the defeat of his army and became psychologically unable to take decisive action to lift the siege.

Chattanooga Campaign ordered Longstreet to move additional units into Lookout Valley, but, unknown to Bragg, the order was ignored.

Chattanooga Campaign withdrew to Lookout Mountain, successfully covered by Benning's brigade.

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Sherman's arriving troops would use newly improved roads to pass through the hills north of Chattanooga Campaign, taking a route that was not visible from Lookout Mountain, hoping that Bragg would not know for certain whether Sherman was targeting Chattanooga Campaign or Knoxville.

Chattanooga Campaign observed the end of Missionary Ridge that he was designated to attack and remarked that he could seize it successfully by 9 am on the assigned day.

Chattanooga Campaign assumed that Sherman's corps would be heading toward his department's extreme right flank at Knoxville, not Chattanooga.

Chattanooga Campaign assigned Hardee to command his critical right flank, turning over the left flank to Carter Stevenson.

Chattanooga Campaign sent Osterhaus along a trail east of Missionary Ridge, Cruft onto the ridge itself, and Geary along the western face of the ridge.

Chattanooga Campaign attempted to outflank the Confederates both on the right and on the left, but the Confederates held their positions.

Portions of the Chattanooga Campaign battlefields, including 3,000 acres at Lookout Mountain, are preserved by the National Park Service as part of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaign National Military Park.