Battle of Lookout Mountain

BelligerentsUnited StatesConfederate StatesCommanders and leadersJoseph HookerCarter L. StevensonUnits 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 8,726Casualties and losses671 total

(89 killed
471 wounded
111 captured/missing)

1,251 (including 1,064 captured or missing)

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.