Battle of Lookout Mountain

Battle of Lookout Mountain
Part of the American Civil War

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DateNovember 24, 1863 (1863-11-24)
Location
Chattanooga, Tennessee
35°01′01″N 85°20′31″W / 35.017°N 85.342°W / 35.017; -85.342
Result Union victory
Belligerents
 United States  Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
United States Joseph Hooker Confederate States of America Carter L. Stevenson
Units involved

Military Division of the Mississippi:

Army of Tennessee:

  • 2 brigades from Cheatham's Division
  • 2 brigades from Stevenson's Division
Strength
~12,000[2] 8,726[3]
Casualties and losses
671 total
(89 killed
471 wounded
111 captured/missing)[4][5][6]
 1,251 (including 1,064 captured or missing)

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.

  1. ^ Only the Second Division.
  2. ^ McDonough, p. 130; Cleaves, p. 196; Korn, p. 130.
  3. ^ Hallock, p. 131; Korn, p. 131, cites 7,000.
  4. ^ Return of casualties in the Union forces (XI and XII Corps): Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, page 83
  5. ^ See also Union casualties in Battle of Missionary Ridge.
  6. ^ Korn, p. 136; Taylor, Samuel, North Georgia History, cites 710 Union, 521 Confederate; Hebert, p. 265, cites 362 Union, 1,250 Confederate.