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The Battle of Missionary Ridge was fought on November 25, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War . Following the Union victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain on November 24, Union forces in the Military Division of the Mississippi under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee , commanded by Gen. Braxton...
In November 1863, the US Army launched a series of attacks to break the siege of Chattanooga. One of the first of these attacks came at a hillside in eastern Chattanooga called Orchard Knob. During the assault on Missionary Ridge, General Ulysses S. Grant stood atop Orchard Knob as he used the vantage point to observe the attack. Because the city grew over much of the battlefield, Orchard Kno...
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