Exploring the most important 55 months in American history
Ulysses S. Grant looks to George H. Thomas’s Federal army at Chattanooga to advance into northern Georgia and threaten Dalton as a means to keep the Confederate army stationed there occupied and unable to reinforce the armies in Mississippi or northeastern Tennessee.
Ulysses S. Grant’s Federals finally break the siege of Chattanooga and nearly break Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army of Tennessee in the process.
Ulysses S. Grant’s Federals continue their efforts to fight their way out of Chattanooga, including scaling the formidable Lookout Mountain and securing their fragile supply line once and for all.
Ulysses S. Grant begins efforts to break his Federals out of Chattanooga by assaulting forward Confederate positions at the base of Missionary Ridge.
Ulysses S. Grant prepares to fight his way out of Chattanooga as Braxton Bragg sends more of his Confederate Army of Tennessee away.
Ulysses S. Grant personally inspects the proposed supply route at Brown’s Ferry on the Tennessee River and approves the plan to open the “cracker line” to feed the Federals besieged in Chattanooga.