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Chattanooga Campaign

Confederate Commander

Gen. Braxton Bragg

Forces Engaged: 6,000-8,000

Killed: 361

Wounded: 2,180

Missing or Captured: 4,146

Total Casualties: 6,687

Confederate Officers

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Lieut. Gen. William J. Hardee

Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatman

Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge

Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne

Maj. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart

Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson

Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler

Maj. Gen. John A. Wharton

Brig. Gen. John K. Jackson

Brig. Gen. John K. Jackson

Brig. Gen. John C. Moore

Brig. Gen. Edward C. Walthall

Brig. Gen. Marcus J. Wright

Brig. Gen. Patton Anderson

Brig. Gen. Arthur M. Manigault

Brig. Gen. Zach C. Deas

Brig. Gen. Alfred J. Vaughan, Jr.

Brig. Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson

Brig. Gen. Archibald Gracie, Jr.

Brig. Gen. Alexander W. Reynolds

Brig. Gen. States R. Gist

Brig. Gen. George Maney

Brig. Gen. James A. Smith

Brig. Gen. Lucius E. Polk

Brig. Gen. Mark P. Lowrey

Brig. Gen. Otho F. Strahl

Brig. Gen. Marcelllus A. Stovall

Brig. Gen. William B. Bate

Brig. Gen. Joseph H. Lewis

Brig. Gen. Jesse J. Finley

Brig. Gen. John C. Brown

Brig. Gen. Alfred Cumming

Brig. Gen. Edmund W. Pettus

Brig. Gen. Henry B. Davidson

Brig. Gen. William T. Martin

Brig. Gen. John T. Morgan

Brig. Gen. Frank C. Armstrong

Brig. Gen. William Y. C. Humes

Brig. Gen. John H. Kelly

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Confederate Order of Battle

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Hardee's Corps

Breckinridge's Corps

Wheeler's Cavalry Corps

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Confederate Official Records

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September 21 - November 25, 1863

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Union Victory

Orchard Knob

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Lookout Mountain

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Missionary Ridge

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Rossville Gap

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National Park Service

Battles for Chattanooga

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Battlefield Trust

Article - Chattanooga

Facts and Summary

Whirl of Death

Mississippi vs New York

on Lookout Mountain

Hell in Heavens

Lookout Mountain and the

Bloody Battle for Chattanooga

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History Net

Battle of Chattanooga

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Harper's Weekly

December 26, 1863

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New York Times

December 4, 1863

December 7, 1863

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Union Commander

Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

Forces Engaged: 72,533

Killed: 753

Wounded: 4,722

Missing or Captured: 349

Total Casualties: 5,842

Union Officers

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Maj. Gen. Joseph J. Reynolds

Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger

Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan

Maj. Gen. John M. Palmer

Maj. Gen. Carl Schurz

Maj. Gen. Francis P. Blair

Brig. Gen. John A. Rawlins

Brig. Gen. William D. Whipple

Brig. Gen. Charles Cruft

Brig. Gen. Walter C. Whitaker

Brig. Gen. George D. Wagner

Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Wood

Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen

Brig. Gen. Samuel Beatty

Brig. Gen. Richard W. Johnson

Brig. Gen. William P. Carlin

Brig. Gen. John H. King

Brig. Gen. John C. Starkweather

Brig. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis

Brig. Gen. James D. Morgan

Brig. Gen. John Beatty

Brig. Gen. Absalom Baird

Brig. Gen. John B. Turchin

Brig. Gen. John M. Brannan

Brig. Gen. William F. Smith

Brig. Gen. James B. Steedman

Brig. Gen. Adolph von Steinwehr

Brig. Gen. John W. Geary

Brig. Gen. Peter J. Osterhaus

Brig. Gen. Charles R. Woods

Brig. Gen. Morgan L. Smith

Brig. Gen. Hugh B. Ewing

Brig. Gen. John M. Corse

Brig. Gen. John E. Smith

Brig. Gen. Charles L. Matthies

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Union Order of Battle

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Army of the Cumberland

Hooker's Command

Army of the Tennessee

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Union Official Records

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Records 1 through 59

Records 60 through 120

Records 121 through 216

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Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967. p 141-147

Commager, Henry Steele. The Civil War Archive The History of the Civil War in Documents. New York: Tess Press, 2000. p

          277-279, 671-689

Foote, Shelby. The Civil War A Narrative Fredericksburg to Meridian. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. p 804-811

Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs. New York: Random House, 1999. p 346-350

Korn, Jerry, ed. The Fight for Chattanooga - Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1989.

Porter, James D. Tennessee. Confederate Military History. 12 Volumes. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing, 1899. Weider History,

          National Historical Society, 2008. p 90-124

Spruill, Matt. Storming the Heights A Guide to the Battle of Chattanooga. Knoxville: Tennessee Press, 2003.

Woodworth, Steven. This Grand Spectacle The Battle of Chattanooga. Abilene, Texas: McMurray Foundation Press, 1999.

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