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In late September 1863, the Confederate army under Gen. Braxton Bragg laid siege to Chattanooga, trapping the Union army defeated at Chickamauga. From positions on Lookout Mountain and at other key points surrounding the city, the Confederates hoped to starve the Federals into submission. At 3 a.m. on October 27, Union soldiers cast off from Chattanooga in pontoon boats and floated secretly down the river. At Browns Ferry they landed and routed the Confederate pickets. The following day they linked up with Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Union forces moving up Lookout Valley to relieve the city, opening a vital supply line through Lookout Valley and Browns Ferry and breaking the Confederate strangle-hold on Chattanooga.
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Lookout Mountain, Tennessee · United States
