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BOYNTON PARK, TOP OF CAMERON HILL, CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
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PUBLISHED BY T. H. PAYNE & CO., CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
MILITARY HISTORY OF CHATTANOOGA.
This city was first occupied by Confederate Troops in the
spring of 1862 under Generals Floyd, Maxey and Leadbetter.
Union Troops under Genera! Mitchell shelled it June 7 and
8. Bragg's Army occupied it in August, again in the fall on
its return from Kentucky, and in the summer of 1863 when
retiring before Rosecrans from Middle Tennessee.
Wilder shelled the city from Stringer's Ridge August 21.
Bragg evacuated in Sept. 7 and 8.
Rosecrans occupiéd it after the battle of Chickamauga.
Thereafter it remained in Union control.
Thomas succeeded Rosecrans October 19. Grant took gen-0
eral command October 23. Sherman's troops crossed the
Tennessee above the City during the night of Nov. 23. On -
that day the Army of the Cumberland carried Orchard Knob.
November 24, Hooker's Column captured the North slope D
of Lookout Mountain. On November 25, Missionary Ridge, 3
excepting Cleburne's position at Tunnel Hill, and the inter-
vening line to Walthall's stand North of DeLong's was carried M
by Grant's combined armies, Bragg retreating to Dalton.
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