Battle of Missionary Ridge

Grant arrives to break the siege of Chattanooga; Bragg’s (South) army sits on the heights, holding the rail gateway to the Deep South.

Sherman is the hammer at the north end, but bad maps and Cleburne (South) stop him cold, while Hooker (North) lags in the south.

Grant sends Thomas’s (North) men at the base rifle pits as a diversion, pinning them under fire from the crest, in the worst place on the field.

The Army of the Cumberland climbs without orders, shouting “Chickamauga!”, and shatters Bragg’s (South) badly-sited center.

Bragg (South) loses his army and his command; the door to Atlanta and the slave South swings open; Grant goes east to win the war.