The name “Chattanooga” comes from the Creek Indian word for “rock coming to a point.” This refers to Lookout Mountain which begins in Chattanooga and stretches 88 miles through Alabama and Georgia. The city itself started out with two different names: Ross’s Landing and Lookout City.

With 16,170 Union and 18,454 Confederate casualties, the Battle of Chickamauga was the second costliest battle of the Civil War, ranking only behind Gettysburg, and was by far the deadliest battle fought in the West.

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5,800 casualties

On June 8, 1861, Tennessee seceded from the Union, the 11th and final state to join the Confederacy.

-They were running out of supplies and food. Why was the Union staying on the offensive bad for the Rebel army? -Their defensive positions each time were poor. Therefore everytime the Union regained their troops and moved the Confederates were collapsing as a threat and force to Grant.

32,000 men

18,000 soldiers

On May 5, after Grant’s army crossed the Rapidan and entered the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, it was attacked by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Although Lee was outnumbered, about 60,000 to 100,000, his men fought fiercely and the dense foliage provided a terrain advantage.

The Battle of the Wilderness

Possible Contributors to the North’s Victory: The North was more industrial and produced 94 percent of the USA’s pig iron and 97 percent of its firearms. The North even had a richer, more varied agriculture than the South. The Union had a larger navy, blocking all efforts from the Confederacy to trade with Europe.

Some short-term effects took place once the Civil War was resolved. The union solidified under President Lincoln’s rule, the North victory led to the development of the Emancipation Proclamation, created by Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves from the southern states that had succeeded.

Gettysburg

Early on the morning of May 12, a massive Union attack overwhelmed the Confederates stationed in a bulge in the Confederate lines known as the Mule Shoe because of its shape. Around mid-morning, an extremely extensive, bloody fight broke out around a slight bend in the trenches that became known as the Bloody Angle.

After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg.

Bloody Lane