A Civil War battle on November 24, 1863, that, along with the battle of Missionary Ridge (November 25), ended the Confederate siege of Union troops at Chattanooga (1863). Gen. Joseph Hooker, commanding the right wing of Ulysses S. Grant's Union army, drove Gen. Braxton Bragg's Confederate forces off the mountain, which they had held since the battle of Chickamauga (1863).
It is also called the Battle above the Clouds because low-hanging clouds hid contending forces from observers in the valley of the Tennessee.See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.
