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On November 24, 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Union forces to storm Lookout Mountain. Hooker's troops swept up the mountain's western slope and then charged around the base of the cliffs, with the battle reaching its high point near the Cravens House. The outnumbered Confederates were repeatedly pushed back, and because fog enveloped the mountain for 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.
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Lookout Mountain, Tennessee · United States
