Chattanooga Campaign Facts

Date and Location

• September 21–November 27, 1863
• Near the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in Northern Georgia

Timeline of the Chattanooga Campaign

These are the main battles and events of the Chattanooga Campaign in order.

• October 28–29, 1863 — Battle of Wauhatchie
• November 24–25, 1863 — Battle of Chattanooga
• November 23, 1863 — Battle of Orchard Knob
• November 24, 1863 — Battle of Lookout Mountain
• November 25, 1863 — Battle of Missionary Ridge
• November 27, 1863 — Battle of Ringgold Gap

Principal Union Commanders

• Major General Ulysses S. Grant
• Major General George Thomas
• Major General William T. Sherman

Principal Confederate Commanders

• General Braxton Bragg

Union Forces Engaged

• Military Division of the Mississippi (Army of the Cumberland, Army of the Tennessee)

Confederate Forces Engaged

• Army of Tennessee

Number of Union Soldiers Engaged

• Roughly 56,000

Number of Confederate Soldiers Engaged

• Roughly 44,000

Estimated Union Casualties

• 6,000 casualties (killed, wounded, and missing/captured)

Estimated Confederate Casualties

• 6,600 casualties (killed, wounded, and missing/captured)

Result

• Union victory

Impact of the Chattanooga Campaign

• The Chattanooga Campaign was the Union’s attempt to break a Confederate siege of the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Engagements in the Chattanooga Campaign included the Battle of Lookout Mountain and the Battle of Seminary Ridge.
• 753 Union soldiers were killed during the Chattanooga Campaign.
• 361 Confederate soldiers were killed during the Chattanooga Campaign.
• The Chattanooga Campaign gave the Union uncontested control of Chattanooga, the “Gateway to the Lower South.”
• After the Chattanooga Campaign, Chattanooga became an important supply center for Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign in 1864.
• The Chattanooga Campaign was General Ulysses S. Grant’s last campaign in the western theater of the American Civil War.
• Some historians consider the Army of the Cumberland’s ascent of Missionary Ridge to be one of the American Civil War’s most dramatic events.