Second Battle of Chattanooga

| Second Battle of Chattanooga

| Began:|

August 21, 1863

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| Ended:|

Same day

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| Location:|

Hamilton County and City of Chattanooga, Tennessee

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| Theater:|

Western Theater

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| Campaign:|

Chickamauga Campaign

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| Outcome:|

Union victory (via demonstration)

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Combatants

Wilder's Brigade

Hill's Corps

Commanders

John T. Wilder
Colonel, USA

Daniel H. Hill
Lieutenant General, CSA

Strength

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Casualties

Unknown

Unknown

On August 16, 1863, Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, commander of the Army of the Cumberland, launched a campaign to take Chattanooga. Col. John T. Wilder’s brigade of the Union 4th Division, XIV Army Corps marched to a location northeast of Chattanooga where the Confederates could see them, reinforcing Gen. Braxton Bragg’s expectations of a Union attack on the town from that direction. On August 21, Wilder reached the Tennessee River opposite Chattanooga and ordered the 18th Indiana Light Artillery to begin shelling the town. The shells caught many soldiers and civilians in town in church observing a day of prayer and fasting. The bombardment sank two steamers docked at the landing and created a great deal of consternation amongst the Confederates. Continued periodically over the next two weeks, the shelling helped keep Bragg's attention to the northeast while the bulk of Rosecrans's army crossed the Tennessee River well west and south of Chattanooga. When Bragg learned on September 8 that the Union army was in force southwest of the city, he abandoned Chattanooga. (NPS summary)

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Chickamauga Campaign, August-September 1863

2nd Chattanooga \-- Davis' Cross Roads \-- Chickamauga

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Battles of the American Civil War: 1863

Eastern Theater|

Fort Anderson \-- Kelly's Ford \-- Washington, NC \-- Suffolk \-- Suffolk (Hill's Point) \-- Stoneman's Raid \-- Chancellorsville \-- Salem Church\--2nd Marye's Heights \-- Brandy Station \-- 2nd Winchester \-- Middleburg \-- Aldie \-- Upperville \-- Sporting Hill \-- Hanover \-- Gettysburg \-- Carlisle \-- Hunterstown \-- Fairfield \-- Monterey Pass \-- Williamsport \-- Boonsboro \-- Funkstown \-- Manassas Gap \-- 1st Auburn \-- 2nd Auburn \-- Bristoe Station \-- Buckland Mills \-- Droop Mountain \-- 2nd Rappahannock Station \-- Mine Run \-- Charlestown

Western Theater|

Arkansas Post \-- Dover \-- Thompson's Station \-- Vaught's Hill \-- Brentwood \-- 1st Franklin \-- Grand Gulf \-- Snyder’s Bluff \-- Day's Gap \-- Port Gibson \-- Raymond \-- Jackson, MS \-- Champion Hill \-- Big Black River Bridge \-- Vicksburg \-- Milliken's Bend \-- Hoover's Gap \-- Goodrich's Landing \-- Helena \-- Tebbs' Bend \-- Lebanon \-- Corydon \-- Buffington Island \-- Salineville \-- 2nd Chattanooga \-- Cumberland Gap \-- Davis' Cross Roads \-- Chickamauga \-- Blountsville \-- Wheeler's Raid \-- Blue Springs \-- Brown's Ferry \-- Wauhatchie \-- Collierville \-- Campbell's Station \-- Chattanooga \-- Ringgold Gap \-- Fort Sanders \-- Bean's Station \-- Mossy Creek

Trans-Mississippi Theater|

2nd Galveston \-- 2nd Springfield \-- Hartville \-- Cape Girardeau\-- Chalk Bluff \-- Cabin Creek \-- Honey Springs \-- Raid on Lawrence \-- Devil's Backbone \-- 2nd Sabine Pass \-- Bayou Forche \-- Baxter Springs \-- Pine Bluff

Lower Seaboard Theater|

1st Fort McAllister \-- 1st Charleston Harbor \-- Fort Bisland \-- Irish Bend \-- Vermillion Bayou \-- Plains Store \-- Port Hudson \-- LaFourche Crossing \-- 2nd Donaldsonville \-- 1st Fort Wagner \-- Grimball's Landing \-- 2nd Fort Wagner \-- 2nd Charleston Harbor \-- 2nd Fort Sumter \-- Kock's Plantation \-- Stirling's Plantation \-- Fort Brooke

Naval|

Alabama vs Hatteras