![Dwarfed by Lookout Mountain, the Union Army of the Cumberland hunkers down in besieged Chattanooga in this idealized painting. Actual conditions were much worse.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/M-Chattanooga-4-4CAug06-e1684265755888-760x427.jpg)
Civil War Quarterly Winter 2013
Miracle at Chattanooga’s Battle of Missionary Ridge
By Mike PhiferPeering through a pair of field glasses, Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest perched in an oak tree on Missionary Ridge, overlooking the Tennessee town of Chattanooga, and observed a Union army in complete disarray. Read more