Battle of Lookout Mountain
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The Battle of Lookout Mountain also known as the Battle Above the Clouds was fought November 24, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War. Union forces under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker assaulted Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and defeated Confederate forces commanded by Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson. Lookout Mountain was 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 drove in the Confederate left flank and allowed Hooker's men to assist in the Battle of Missionary Ridge the following day, which routed Bragg's army, lifting the siege of Union forces in Chattanooga, and opening the gateway into the Deep South.
Battle of Lookout Mountain | |||||||
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Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
Harper's weekly illustration of the battle | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States | Confederate States | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Joseph Hooker | Carter L. Stevenson | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Military Division of the Mississippi:
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Strength | |||||||
~12,000[2] | 8,726[3] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
671 total | ~200 captured/killed |