In order to supply troops in this battle, the Confederates had to be driven from Raccoon Mountain, opening a supply route through Kelly's and Brown's ferries which was named the "Cracker Line". At one point in this battle, Turchin and Wagner's brigades were halted by their commanders after Grant asked Thomas, the "Rock of Chickamauga", "Who ordered those men up the hill?", but the rest of the soldiers continued up Missionary Ridge on their own initiative. Hooker's troops
In order to supply troops in this battle, the Confederates had to be driven from Raccoon Mountain, opening a supply route through Kelly's and Brown's ferries which was named the "Cracker Line". At one point in this battle, Turchin and Wagner's brigades were halted by their commanders after Grant asked Thomas, the "Rock of Chickamauga", "Who ordered those men up the hill?", but the rest of the soldiers continued up Missionary Ridge on their own initiative. Hooker's troops had earlier planted a flag atop Lookout Mountain in the "Battle Above the Clouds". FTP, name this 1863 defeat for Braxton Bragg's Confederates at a rail junction in southeastern Tennessee.          |
In order to supply troops in this battle, the Confederates had to be driven from Raccoon Mountain, opening a supply route through Kelly's and Brown's ferries which was named the "Cracker Line".
Battle of {Chattanooga}