Lookout Mountain, Battle of

Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant, having fought through the night, ward off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet in the Battle of Wauhatchie on October 29.

Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Confederate troops led by General James Longstreet unsuccessfully attack Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside in the Battle of Campbell's Station, near Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 16.

Union forces led by Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counterattack Confederate troops on November 23.

Grant's force of fifty-six thousand, three hundred and fifty-nine men, reinforced by troops from Vicksburg under Major General William T. Sherman and from the Potomac under General Hooker, defeats the sixty-four thousand one hundred and sixty five Confederates in the Battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge on November 23-25, and lift the siege, driving the Confederates out of Chattanooga and Tennessee, and opening the road to Georgia.

Sherman subsequently secures Knoxville.

Union losses in the Battle of Chattanooga total five thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, with seven hundred and fifty-three killed, four thousand seven hundred and twenty-two wounded, and three hundred and forty-nine missing.

The Confederates lose six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven of their troops: three hundred and sixty-one killed, two thousand one hundred and sixty wounded, and an astounding four thousand one hundred and forty-six missing.