Lookout Mountain, Battle of

The Battle of Lookout Mountain is fought November 24, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War.

Union forces under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker assault Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and defeat Confederate forces commanded by Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson.

Lookout Mountain is 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 drives in the Confederate left flank and allows Hooker's men to assist in the Battle of Missionary Ridge the following day, which rout Bragg's army, lifting the siege of Union forces in Chattanooga, and opening the gateway into the Deep South.