The Union Army won the Battle of Chattanooga. The victory opened the gate for the invasion of Georgia and the campaign for the conquest of Atlanta.
Union Army: 5,824 Confederate Army: 6,667
General Ulysses S. Grant saved the Union army at Chattanooga. General Grant immediately released General William S. Rosecrans from his duties upon arrival at Chattanooga and replaced him with General George H. Thomas.
George Thomas at Chattanooga. William T. Sherman at Atlanta.
Go to the aid of the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga.
Union victory - through an impulse-charge uphillby the Army of the Cumberland, which had been rescued from starvationby U.S. Grant, and suffered a lot of jeering insults on account of it. This was their answer.
ANSWER During the third Battle of Chattanooga (Nov. 1863) the Union Army seized 40 guns and 6175 individual guns.
Ulysses S. Grant
The supply line set up to provide the minimum of rations for the survival of men and animals of the Union army besieged in Chattanooga in October 1863 was called the "Crackers Line"
The Confederate Army of Tennessee was in Chattanooga, and the Union Army of the Cumberland wanted them to leave so they started fighting.
After the liberation of the Mississippi, Grant was ordered East, to rescue the Army of the Cumberland from starvation at Chattanooga.
The Battle of Lookout Mountain, fought on November 24, 1863, was significant because it helped secure Union control over Chattanooga, Tennessee, and temporarily delayed the Union army's advance into Georgia. This battle was part of the larger Chattanooga Campaign and demonstrated the Union's strategic advantage in the region. It ultimately set the stage for subsequent Union operations in Georgia, including Sherman's famous Atlanta Campaign.