Grant Breaks the Siege: Chattanooga Liberated
General Ulysses S. Grant broke the Confederate siege of Chattanooga in a three-day battle from November 23-25, 1863, freeing a Union army that had been trapped and starving since its defeat at Chickamauga two months earlier. The climactic moment came on November 25 when Union soldiers, ordered to capture the rifle pits at the base of Missionary Ridge, spontaneously charged up the 400-foot slope without orders and overran the Confederate positions at the top. Grant watched in disbelief, demanding to know who had ordered the assault. Nobody had. The soldiers had simply refused to stop. Braxton Bragg's Confederate army fled into Georgia. The victory opened the road to Atlanta, which Sherman captured the following September, and confirmed Grant as the general Lincoln would promote to command all Union forces.
November 23, 1863
163 years ago
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