Following the disastrous defeat at Chickamauga, Union forces were in disarray and the tactically vital city of Chattanooga was under siege and on the brink of falling. The situation required outstanding leadership and President Abraham Lincoln decided Ulysses Grant was the man for the occasion. In early October, Grant was promoted to command of the Military District of the Mississippi and told to clean up the mess created by Chickamauga. With those orders began the Chattanooga Campaign. This book tracks how, over the next three months, Grant orchestrated the movements of three Union Armies and led them into a series of battles that saw them first raise the siege of Chattanooga, then, in three battles over three days, break the Confederate army entrenched on the heights overlooking the city.

Includes maps of: Chattanooga Campaign; Confederate Raid on Union Supply Lines at Anderson's Crossroads, 2 OCT 1863; Battle of Wauhatchie, 28-29 OCT 1863; Sneaking Sherman's Army Past Chattanooga, 22-23 NOV 1863; Battle of Orchard Knob, 23 NOV 1863; Sherman's Crossing and the Assault on Billy Goat Hill, 23-24 NOV 1863; Battle of Lookout Mountain, 24 NOV 1863; Battle of Missionary Ridge, 25 NOV 1863; Battle of Ringgold Gap, 27 NOV 1863.

Introduction -- Chronology -- Opposing commmanders -- Opposing forces : Mississippi Military Division -- The Army of Tennessee -- Orders of battle -- Opposing plans -- The campaign : Chattanooga besieged, September 22-29 -- Grant takes command, September 30- to October 24 -- Fight for Lookout Valley, October 25-30 -- Strategic planning, November 1-22 -- Orchard Knob, November 23 -- Sherman's crossing and Lookout Mountain, November 24 -- Missionary Ridge, November 25 -- Pursuit, November 25-29 -- Aftermath -- The battlefield today.