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	Missionary Ridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Missionary Ridge is a geographic feature in Chattanooga, Tennessee, site of the Battle of Missionary Ridge, a battle in the American Civil War, fought on November 25, 1863.
		The Ridge was slightly east of the city at the time of the battle but now, due to annexation, largely bisects it.
		The Ridge today is an affluent residential area with many plaques and monuments to the battle, some of which are in the yards of residents, but most of the larger of which are surrounded by small reservations which are part of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, administered by the U.S. National Park Service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missionary_Ridge (320 words)

	Third Battle of Chattanooga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Third Battle of Chattanooga (popularly known as The Battle of Chattanooga, and including the Battle of Lookout Mountain and the Battle of Missionary Ridge) was fought from November 23 to November 25, 1863, in the American Civil War.
		The ensuing Battle of Wauhatchie (October 28 to October 29, 1863) was one of the war's few battles fought exclusively at night.
		The Ridge was a formidable defensive position, manned in depth, and Grant knew that a frontal assault against it would be suicidal, unless it could be arranged in support of the flanking attacks by Sherman and Hooker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Chattanooga_III (1179 words)

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		General Sherman was to cross the Tennessee River, with his command, at the mouth of North Chickamauga Creek, ascend the north\- eastern flank of Missionary Ridge (which here juts against the river), sweep the ridge, and take the en emy's intrenchments, both at its base and on the crest, in flank and rear.
		Missionary Ridge is an elevated range, of an average altitude of several hundred feet above the plain of Chattanooga, and some six miles long.
		And I may add, the successful assault of Missionary Ridge is a most pertinent i llustration of the soundness of the old French military maxim\emdash }{\i\fs24 l\rquote audace, toujours l\rquote audace}{\fs24.
	www.aotc.net /tjwood&MR.rtf (5838 words)

	Civil War Battle Missionary Ridge
		The Battle for Missionary Ridge was fought on three fronts, the north end with Sherman against Cleburne (under Hardee), the middle with Thomas against Bragg, and the south with Hooker against Breckinridge.
		By the evening of the 25th, the Union forces held the middle and south ends of Missionary Ridge and the Confederates were in retreat.
		For this reason, he was stunned upon hearing the Yankees had breached Missionary Ridge at its strongest points to the south.
	chattanooga.freeservers.com /civilwar/missionaryridge.htm (1095 words)

	General Joseph Hooker's Report of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge
		The former deployed, pushed forward as skirmishers to the gorge in Missionary Ridge, and drew the fire of the artillery and infantry holding it, and also discovered that the enemy was attempting to cover a train of wagons loading with stores at the Rossville house.
		General Cruft, with his staff, preceded his column in ascending the ridge to supervise the formation of his lines, and was at once met by a line of the enemy's skirmishers advancing.
		This is a break in Taylor's Ridge of sufficient width for the river to flow and on its north bank room for an ordinary road and a railroad, when the ridge rises with abruptness on both sides 400 or 500 feet, and from thence, running nearly north and south, continues unbroken for many miles.
	www.swcivilwar.com /HookerChatt.html (5370 words)

	Battle Report of Tunnel Hill, Tennessee
		During the night of the 24th, the brigade changed position from where it was at nightfall - its left moving nearer to the tunnel, consequently the skirmishers in front of its original position had no main line immediately in their rear.
		The battle continued thus between the artillery and skirmishers until near 8 A.M., when our skirmishers found they were being flanked on the right.
		They took position nearly perpendicular to their old line, so as to confront the enemy who was flanking them and hold them at a stand, and finally poured the fire into their ranks hotter and hotter, advancing on them and finally drove them back down the hill.
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	Chapter XLIII. Grant, Ulysses S. 1885–86. Personal Memoirs
		It owed its importance chiefly to the fact that it lay between the town and Missionary Ridge, where most of the strength of the enemy was.
		There had been a drizzling rain during the day, and the clouds were so low that Lookout Mountain and the top of Missionary Ridge were obscured from the view of persons in the valley.
		Sherman carried the end of Missionary Ridge, and his right is now at the tunnel, and his left at Chickamauga Creek.
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	sotto voce USA: Monday Photo Shoot: Bottoms Up
		This picture is of the 2nd Minnesota Infantry Regiment monument at Delong Reservation atop Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tn.
		At Missionary Ridge, they were one of the first units to reach the summit of the ridge.
		At Missionary Ridge, he was severely wounded, losing an arm, but refused to be discharged and served until the end of the war.
	sottovoceusa.blogspot.com /2006/05/monday-photo-shoot-bottoms-up.html (457 words)

	Flags Of The Confederacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That size is not far off from one of the two size battle flags issued to the Army of Tennessee during the late winter of 1863-1864 that originated in Augusta.
		Once issued to the regiments in the field, these flags were decorated with battle honors, including the "crossed cannon inverted" honor (but with muzzles upward) if the units had captured artillery in combat, and a regimental abbreviation, usually in the central disc.
		To replace those which had been lost or worn out in battle and to provide flags to the four units of Mercer's Georgia Brigade that had been grafted into the division on 24 July 1864, a new set of flags was prepared for those elements of the division in need.
	www.confederateflags.org /army/FOTCaot.htm (1866 words)

	Havis' Battery at Missionary Ridge by Wm. Talley
		Below is account of his experiences at the Battle of Missionary Ridge as it was presented to the Quitman Chapter No.112, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Quitman, Georgia.Submitted by Mrs.
		After the battle of Chickamauga, the Yankees had been hemmed in about Chattanooga, and Bragg's Army extended from the mouth of the Chickamauga River, or creek, to the top of Missionary Ridge, and on to or near Rossville.
		For the sake of water, the army was camped east of the ridge in the valley.
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	American Civil War
		The 28th had a regimental flag and a battle flag that was carried with them at all times.The battle flag was made of two pieces of silk sewn back to back.
		The battle flag was captured during the Battle of Orchard Knob on November 23, 1863 by Cpl. G.
		In summing up the operations of the 23d and 25th, I have to report the capture of 382 prisoners, beside a large number of wounded, of 2 stand of colors, of 18 pieces of artillery, with their appendages, 650 stand of small-arms, a considerable quantity of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, and several loaded wagons.
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	Chattanooga
		The battle for Chattanooga was the turning point in the Civil War because it opened the doorway to the Union forces for invasion into the deep South at the last moment for making possible the capture of Atlanta in time to influence the 1864 congressional and presidential elections.
		This assault was, of course, the crisis of the whole battle, and the successful carrying of Missionary Ridge was doubtless due in a measure to the position of Sherman and the threatening movement of Hooker.
		Groups of officers on Missionary Ridge looked down through their glasses, and the enemy's pickets, but a few hundred yards away, came out of their pits and stood idly looking on, unconcernedly viewing what they supposed to be preparation s for a grand review.
	www.aotc.net /Chattanooga.htm (12477 words)

	MEMOIRS OF GENERAL SHERIDAN, Vol. I., Part. 3
		At the foot of the ridge was the enemy's first line of rifle-pits; at a point midway up its face, another line, incomplete; and on the crest was a third line, in which Bragg had massed his artillery.
		The day after the battle of Missionary Ridge I was ordered in the evening to return to Chattanooga, and from the limited supply of stores to be had there outfit my command to march to the relief of Knoxville, where General Burnside was still holding out against the besieging forces of General Longstreet.
		General Lee reported this battle to his Government as a Confederate victory, but his despatch was sent early in the day, long before the fight ended, and evidently he could not have known the final result when he made the announcement, for the fight lasted until dark.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/4362/4362-h/p3.htm (16243 words)

	UTC Lupton Library: Walker's 'Ghost on Missionary Ridge'
		This historical ridge received its name from the Brainerd Mission which was opened in 1817 to educate and Christianize the Cherokee Indians.
		Following the battle of Chickamauga, General Bragg again retired to Missionary Ridge where his army was encamped.
		The ridge was then covered with many chestnut oaks, interspersed with persimmon, sumach, flberry and sawbriers, I saw in advance that if I should run across the ghost which should force me into one of the briery jungles that it would be difficult for me to extricate myself.
	www.lib.utc.edu /manuscripts/mss081/ghosts.html (2283 words)

	MIssionary Ridge Tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The railroad tunnel is located on the site of a battle at the north end of Missionary Ridge, where Confederate forces under General Patrick Cleburne repulsed repeated attacks by Union forces under General William T. Sherman on November 25th.
		As a hard-rock tunnel of almost one thousand feet in length, the Missionary Ridge Tunnel was an engineering landmark when it opened to rail traffic and an important example of the use of slave labor in a southern industrial venture.
		And during the night a Confederate force under the command of General Patrick Cleburne, which had been at Chickamauga Station awaiting transfer to East Tennessee, was recalled and sent to the north end of Missionary Ridge to protect the right flank of the Confederate army.
	www.mtsu.edu /~cwtech/railroad/tunnel_mr.html (2486 words)

	Hendershott Museum Consultants Product Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Confederate Canteen Captured at The Battle of Missionary Ridge in 1863
		Confederate Canteen Captured at The Battle of Missionary Ridge in 1863 - by Major A.S. McBride who himself was later captured and made a prisoner of war by the Confederate Government in which he used this canteen in prison until he was released in 1865.
		The Battle of Missionary Ridge took place Nov. 25, 1863.
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	Pan American Exposition Buffalo 1901
		Mission Ridge is before; Fort Wood behind; the shining elbow of the Tennessee River to the left; Lookout Mountain to the right.
		Stout hearted Sheridan, "Little Phil," is there, dismounted, "hustling to hell," doing homeric battle with the greater gods - he is wrestling with Mission Ridge in a torrid zone of battle-with the ridge, like a wall before him at an angle of 45 degrees, but clambering steadily on-up-upward still.
		The action, the shots, the death rattle, the surge and sweep of forces are for the imagination to devise.
	panam1901.bfn.org /midway/missionary_ridge/missionary_ridge.htm (521 words)

	Descendants - pafg02.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Battle at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on 25 November 1863
		Battle at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on 26 November 1863
		Battle at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on 28 November 1863
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	ConfVet
		He was wounded in the battle of Missionary Ridge by a ball striking him in the forehead and plowing its way across his head.
		He was in the battles of Richmond, KY., Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Mountain, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw (sic) Mountain, Atlanta, Nashville, and Bentonville, N.C. He went to Texas in 1875, and in the same year, at Sherman, was married to Miss Nannie Stockburger.
		He took his place in battle line with his comrades and remained with them in victory or defeat, on the march or in camp, enduring with patience and fortitude the ills and sufferings of soldier life.
	39thgavolinfrgt.homestead.com /ConfVet.html (2457 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		It was composed of the Seventh Texas Infantry, the Sixth, Tenth, and Fifteenth Texas Infantry (consolidated), and the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth Texas Dismounted Cavalry (consolidated) as a part of Maj. Gen.
		In the ensuing retreat of the Army of Tennessee from Missionary Ridge, Cleburne's division, including Granbury's brigade, probably saved the army by its rearguard stand at Ringold Gap, for which it received the thanks of the Confederate Congress.
		At the succeeding battle of Nashville, the brigade was commanded by a colonel.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/qkg2.html (462 words)

	Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Etc. Site Photos
		George H. Thomas' troops in the center to seize the Confederate rifle-pits at the base of the ridge.
		The Union victory on Missionary Ridge left Chattanooga firmly in Union hands, and set the state for Maj. Gen.
		In late November the city was in Union hands, while Confederate forces occupied Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.
	www.civilwaralbum.com /chattanooga/lookout3.htm (634 words)

	OHS - Fight for the Colors - Behind the Lines: True Stories of the Ohio Battle Flags
		After their defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863, the Union’s Army of the Cumberland retreated to the city of Chattanooga to reorganize its troops.
		Unsatisfied with Major General William S. Rosecrans’ performance at the Battle of Chickamauga, the War Department relieved him of command of the Army of the Cumberland on October 20.
		The target was the seemingly impregnable Confederate stronghold on Missionary Ridge.
	www.ohiohistory.org /ohswww/etcetera/exhibits/fftc/btlines/index.cfm?section=gallantry&page=6 (661 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003007246
		The Battle for Missionary Ridge: The South Flank 000 8.
		The Battle for Missionary Ridge: The Center 000 9.
		The Battle for Missionary Ridge: The North Flank 000 10.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip042/2003007246.html (224 words)

	Tyler
		Tyler rose rapidly in the enlisted ranks By August, 1861, he was a major and quartermaster to General Gideon Pillow, and later as a lieutenant colonel, led his regiment at the battle of Belmont in November 1861.
		Wounded at Shiloh, by July 1862, he was colonel of the 15th, and that autumn, served as provost marshal of Bragg's army in the field.
		Call it what you will, a full-fledged “battle” or merely the last “skirmish” of the war, it was the end of life for 76 brave souls, Union and Confederate alike, who fell fighting for a cause in which they truly believed and are now buried in the Confederate Cemetery.
	www.forttyler.com /tyler.htm (745 words)

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		The first is a simple recreation of the storming of Missionary Ridge by Union troops that relieved the siege of Chattanooga in November 1863.
		I'll post the second scenario, based on the battle of Cedar Mountain, in a later message and send maps for both of them to www.grognard.com.
		Dennis Snow --- Battle Cry Scenario: Missionary Ridge ---------------- November 25, 1863 The Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged within the fortifications of Chattanooga when Ulysses S. Grant arrived on October 23, 1863.
	www.grognard.com /variants1/batcry5.txt (449 words)

	Company B Brooks Gaurds (Horry)
		Tolar Severly wounded and disabled at the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864.
		Inman Wounded at Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee.
		A. Redman Wounded at Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee and died.
	www.hchsonline.org /military/b.html (238 words)

	The Chattanooga Campaign Official Records and Battle(s) Descriptions
		Following the Battle of Stones River, the armies of Braxton Bragg and William Rosecrans sat 30 miles apart in central Tennessee for six months, idle except for cavalry raids on each other's supply lines.
		Remarking that the general was "stunned and confused, like a duck hit on the head," Lincoln relieved him of command and placed the perilous situation in the hands of the North's most trusted leader, Ulysses S. Grant.
		Battles of Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge
	www.civilwarhome.com /chattannoga.htm (552 words)

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