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(7-01) Battle Above the Clouds. Site Marker: Hooker's troops drove the Confederates from Lookout Mountain. On November 24, 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, The Union commander, ordered Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's forces to storm Lookout Mountain. Hooker's men swept up the western slope of the mountain from your left, and then charged around the base of these cliff to your right. The battle reached its high point near the Cravens House just below these cliff to your right. The outnumbered Confederates were repeatedly pushed back. Because fog enveloped the mountain most of the day, soldiers nicknamed the Battle of Lookout Mountain the "Battle Above the Clouds." That night the Confederates retreated across Chattanooga Creek to Missionary Ridge |
(7-01) Lookout Valley. Site Marker: You are looking across Lookout Valley and the flat-topped ridges of the Cumberland Plateau. The morning of November 24, Union Gen. Hooker's troops crossed Lookout Creek opposite the present railroad yard in the valley. Then, in a long column, they climbed the mountain to the base of the cliff to your left. This wall blocked any further advance to the mountaintop. Facing north, to your right, the line next moved forward along the slope to attack the lightly-held Confederate defenses. The advance cleared the creek bank of Confederate pickets. More Union soldiers crossed to join the attack, the total attacking force reaching 8000. Walthall's brigade was driven back around Point Lookout, losing 900 of 1500 men - and the battle! |
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(7-01) Sunset Rock. The view is
looking north. NPS Tour Guide: Generals Braxton Bragg and James
Longstreet used this rock as an observation post on October 28, 1863, to
plan the night attack on an isolated division of Hooker's corps at
Wauhatchie, an unsuccessful attempt to cut the federal army's newly opened
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A view of Moccasin Bend from Sunset Rock |
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Sunset Rock from Reflection Riding at the bottom of Lookout Mountain. From
Sunset Rock, Longstreet and Bragg gazed into Lookout Valley to see the
approach of Hooker's XI & XII corps marching from Bridgeport, Alabama |
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Before dawn on November 24, 1863, Capt. Jesse R. Millison of the 29th PA,
led two companies down the slope on the opposite bank of Lookout Creek at
Light Mill. Under a cover of darkness and fog they crept across the
rain-swollen creek using a narrow mill dam. 42 Confederate pickets were
captured and a bridgehead was formed. Pioneers felled trees and widened the
mill dam into a makeshift bridge |
