Battle of Lookout Mountain

Battle of Lookout Mountain
	Part of the American Civil War
	; Harper's weekly illustration of the battle
Date	November 24, 1863
Location	Chattanooga, Tennessee35°01′01″N 85°20′31″W / 35.017°N 85.342°W
Result	Union victory
Belligerents
United States	Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Hooker	Carter L. Stevenson
Units involved
Military Division of the Mississippi: Army of the Cumberland (Hooker's Command): XI Corps; XII Corps (parts); ;	Army of Tennessee: 2 brigades from Cheatham's Division; 2 brigades from Stevenson's Division;
Strength
~12,000	8,726
Casualties and losses
671 total (89 killed ; 471 wounded ; 111 captured/missing)	~200 captured/killed

The Battle of Lookout Mountain also known as the Battle Above the Clouds was fought November 24, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War. Union forces under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker assaulted Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and defeated Confederate forces commanded by Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson. Lookout Mountain was one engagement in the Chattanooga battles between Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Military Division of the Mississippi and the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg. It drove in the Confederate left flank and allowed Hooker's men to assist in the Battle of Missionary Ridge the following day, which routed Bragg's army, lifting the siege of Union forces in Chattanooga, and opening the gateway into the Deep South.

^ Only the Second Division.
^ McDonough, p. 130; Cleaves, p. 196; Korn, p. 130.
^ Hallock, p. 131; Korn, p. 131, cites 7,000.
^ Return of casualties in the Union forces (XI and XII Corps): Official Records, Series I, Volume XXXI, Part 2, page 83
^ See also Union casualties in Battle of Missionary Ridge.
^ Korn, p. 136; Taylor, Samuel, North Georgia History, cites 710 Union, 521 Confederate; Hebert, p. 265, cites 362 Union, 1,250 Confederate.