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HAMILTON NATIONAL BANK
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MARKET STREET, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. "ALONG THE DIXIE HIGHWAY."
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MARKET STREET,
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 General 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.
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Bragg evacuated in Sept. 7 and 8.
Rosecrans occupied it after the battle of Chickamauga.
Thereafter it remained in Union control.
Thomas succeeded Rosecrans October 19. Grant
took general 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 of Lookout Mountain. On November 25, Missionary
Ridge, excepting Cleburne's position at Tunnel Hill, and
the intervening line to Walthall's stand North of
DeLong's was carried by Grant's combined armies.
Bragg retreating to Dalton.
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