Whitaker's Brigade

Under Brig. Gen. Walter C. Whitaker in Cruft's Division of Granger's Corps, the brigade left the 8th Kentucky and the 96th Illinois on the summit of Lookout, where they had been the first to occupy that position after the battle, then reached Rossville Gap at 4 P.M. with Hooker's column and supported Grose's Brigade in the assault on Missionary Ridge on Nov. 25th, 1863. As it approached the summit, it sent forward the 35th Indiana and the 51st Ohio onto the left of Grose's front line. The Confederates on the summit of the ridge were in entrenchments built by Cruft's Division before it was withdrawn from the Battlefield of Chickamauga. With Grose's Brigade on its right and Geary's Division moving along the western base of the ridge, Whitaker's Brigade advanced steadily up the western slope, pressing back a thin Confederate line to within about a half mile of the position already reached by the assaulting force in the center, where the fighting ended and the brigade bivouacked.

Chattanooga, Tennessee · United States