<b>A highly illustrated account of the Chatanooga &nbsp;campaign that opened the road to Atlanta. and marked Gr anfs &nbsp;first &nbsp;experience as<i>a </i>theater commander.</b><br><br>Following the disastrous defeat at Chickamauga, Union forces were in disarray and thetactically vital Chattanooga was under siege and on the brink of falling. Secretary of WarWilliam Stanton ordered Ulysses Grant to send the Army of Tennessee to reinforceChattanooga. Grant had already reacted.The situation was dire. It required outstanding leadership to rescue the situation.President Abraham Lincoln decided Grant was the man for the occasion. In earlyOctober, Grant was promoted to command of the Military District of Mississippi and toldto clean up the mess created by Chickamauga. With those orders a new campaignbegan: the Chattanooga Campaign. This book tracks how over the next three monthsGrant would orchestrate the movements of three Union Armies – The Army of theCumberland, The Army of the Tennessee, and two Corps from the Army of the Potomac.He would lead them into a series of battles that saw them break the siege ofChattanooga before in three battles in three days the Union forces broke theConfederate army entrenched in the heights overlooking Chattanooga.