Headquarters Row

Beginning in 1862, the Greek Revival-style Richardson house at 320 Walnut Street was occupied in turn by Confederate generals Braxton Bragg, Daniel Ledbetter, and Joseph E. Johnston, followed by Union generals William S. Rosecrans and George H. Thomas. When Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant arrived in Chattanooga on October 23, 1863, he first established his headquarters there, then soon moved to the nearby T.J. Lattner house at the corner of 1st and Walnut Streets. Lattner, who had served in the Confederate army, left with his wife Josephine and their children for Georgia after Union forces arrived. Grant remained in the Lattner house while planning the attacks that drove the Confederate army from Chattanooga. After he departed late in 1864 to take overall command of the Union armies, Gen. William T. Sherman used the house as his headquarters and prepared there for the pivotal campaign that led to the capture of Atlanta. After the war, the army returned the house to Lattner, who moved back to Chattanooga. Union veterans later wanted the Lattner house preserved as a historic site, while local residents told ghost stories that a soldier executed for dereliction of duty haunted the place to prove his allegiance to Union commanders, and others claimed to see the ghosts of Grant and Sherman in the parlor. The house was demolished in 1966.

Chattanooga, Tennessee · United States