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(Encyclopedia)Chattanooga chătˌəno͞oˈgə [key], city (2020 pop. 181,099), seat of Hamilton co., E Tenn., on both ...Chattanooga campaign
(Encyclopedia)Chattanooga campaign, Aug.-Nov., 1863, military encounter in the American Civil War. Chattanooga, Tenn., which commanded Confederate communications between the East and the Mississippi River and was a...Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
(Encyclopedia)Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Dalton
(Encyclopedia)Dalton, city (2020 pop. 34,417), seat of Whitfield co., extreme NW Ga., in the Appalachian valley; inc. 1847. It is a highly industrialized city in a fa...Missionary Ridge
(Encyclopedia)Missionary Ridge: see Chattanooga campaign. ...East Ridge
(Encyclopedia)East Ridge, town (2020 pop. 22,167), Hamilton co., SE Tenn., a suburb of Chattanooga, near the Ga. border; inc. 1921. It is chiefly residential. ...Battle above the Clouds
(Encyclopedia)Battle above the Clouds: see Chattanooga campaign. ...Thomas, George Henry
(Encyclopedia)Thomas, George Henry, 1816–70, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Southampton co., Va. He served in the Seminole War and in the Mexican War. Later he taught at West Point and served in Texa...Johnson, Richard W.
(Encyclopedia)Johnson, Richard W., 1827–97, Union general in the Civil War, b. Livingston co., Ky., grad. West Point, 1849. Before the Civil War he served principally on the frontier. Johnson, made a brigadier ge...Fletcher, Thomas Clement
(Encyclopedia)Fletcher, Thomas Clement, 1827–99, governor of Missouri (1865–69), b. Herculaneum, Mo. A Democrat opposed to slavery, he became a Republican in 1856 and supported Lincoln for the presidential nomi...Browse by Subject
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