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  • Battle of Missionary Ridge
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Strength
  • 44010(xsd:integer)
  • 56359(xsd:integer)
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Partof
  • the American Civil War
Date
  • 1863-11-25(xsd:date)
Commander
Align
  • left
  • right
Caption
  • Battle of Mission [i.e., Missionary] Ridge, Nov. 25th, 1863, Cosack & Co. lithograph from McCormick Harvesting Co., c1886.
Width
  • 35.0
Casualties
  • 349(xsd:integer)
  • 361(xsd:integer)
  • 753(xsd:integer)
  • 2160(xsd:integer)
  • 4146(xsd:integer)
  • 4722(xsd:integer)
  • 5824(xsd:integer)
  • 6667(xsd:integer)
Result
  • Union victory
combatant
  • United States
  • CSA (Confederacy)
Place
  • Chattanooga, Tennessee
Source
  • Brig. Gen. William F. "Baldy" Smith
  • Peter Cozzens, The Shipwreck of Their Hopes
  • Steven E. Woodworth, Six Armies in Tennessee
Conflict
  • Battle of Missionary Ridge
Quote
  • While Cleburne skillfully made the terrain work for him at Tunnel Hill, Confederate dispositions along the central and southern portions of Missionary Ridge allowed the terrain to work for the attackers. ... In the final analysis the strength of the seemingly impregnable Missionary Ridge position turned out to be mostly a bluff.
  • Sherman should have put in all his force to turn Bragg's right, instead of attacking the strongest place on the right, for Bragg had given to the right every man that he could safely spare.
  • Grant's order to halt at the rifle pits at the base of the ridge was misunderstood by far too many of the generals charged with executing it. Some doubted the order because they thought it absurd to stop an attack at the instant when the attackers would be most vulnerable to fire from the crest and to a counterattack. Others apparently received garbled versions of the order.
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