Lookout Mountain from Union works in Chattanooga.
From Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion.
Lifting the SiegeThe Battle of Chattanooga (continued)
ORCHARD KNOB. The Union Army of the Cumberland had
made its positions very strong during the time it was besieged by
Bragg's army. One of its strong points was Fort Wood on an elevated
Point east of the town. Thomas, according to instructions, sent Maj.
Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's and Brig. Gen. T. J. Wood's divisions to level
ground at Fort Wood and there formed them in lineWood on the left,
Sheridan on the right, with Brig. Gen. Absalom Baird supporting
Sheridan. Brig. Gen. R. W. Johnson's troops held the trenches, and Maj.
Gen. O. O. Howard's Corps, which had crossed from the north bank of the
river, acted as the reserve.
Ar 2 p. m. on November 23, the lines of blue moved
forward, driving the Confederate outposts and their supports back to the
base of Missionary Ridge, and captured Orchard Knob, a low hill a little
more than a mile in front of the ridge. The Union forces occupied the
captured entrenchments and erected a battery on Orchard Knob. Except for
occasional artillery firing, the fighting ended for the day.
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