Crossword clues for chattanooga
chattanooga
- Battle in which Grant defeated Bragg
- Grant vs. Bragg, Nov. 1863
- A city in eastern Tennessee
- In the American Civil War (1863) the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg
- US choo-choo destination?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in Tennessee, of uncertain origin, said to be either Cherokee or Muskogee; compare Muskogee cvto "rock" (in Chattahoochee, etc.); the entire name is said to mean "rock rising to a point," which might describe nearby Lookout Mountain.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 182
Land area (2000): 0.489754 sq. miles (1.268458 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.489754 sq. miles (1.268458 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13600
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.423012 N, 98.655030 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73528
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chattanooga
Housing Units (2000): 72108
Land area (2000): 135.208523 sq. miles (350.188452 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.959458 sq. miles (20.614900 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 143.167981 sq. miles (370.803352 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14000
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.045473 N, 85.267255 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 37402 37403 37404 37405 37406 37407
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Headwords:
Chattanooga
Wikipedia
Chattanooga is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
Chattanooga may refer to:
Places- Chattanooga Creek, a stream in Georgia and Tennessee
- Chattanooga Valley, Georgia, U.S.
- Chattanooga (unincorporated) in Liberty Township, Mercer County, Ohio
- Chattanooga, Oklahoma, U.S.
- Battle of Chattanooga (disambiguation), three different engagements during the American civil war in 1862 and 1863
- Chattanooga Lookouts, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers, formerly with the Cincinnati Reds
- Chattanooga Mocs and Lady Mocs, the sports teams at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Chattanooga Black Lookouts, a former Negro League baseball team
- USS Chattanooga, any one of four United States Navy ships
- Chattanooga Choo Choo, a big-band song by Glenn Miller
- Chattanooga (band), Swedish pop trio
Chattanooga was a pop trio consisting of the Mia, Ackie and Clara Kempff sisters from Halmstad in Sweden. Scoring chart successes during the early 1980s. they participated at Melodifestivalen 1982 with the song " Hallå hela pressen", it ended up 4th.
In 2004, the trio was contemporary united to rerecord "Hallå hela pressen" together with Nina & Kim.
Usage examples of "chattanooga".
MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN: Your despatch about Chattanooga and Dalton was duly received and sent to General Halleck.
In your movement upon Chattanooga I think it probable that you include some combination of the force near Cumberland Gap under General Morgan.
But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee.
What should be done is to hold what we have in the West, open the Mississippi, and take Chattanooga and East Tennessee without more.
He is not pleased with the tardiness of the movement toward Chattanooga, and directs that no force be sent here if you cannot do it without breaking up the operations against that point and East Tennessee.
Still do not send a man if in your judgment it will endanger any point you deem important to hold, or will force you to give up or weaken or delay the Chattanooga expedition.
MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK: I think it very important for General Rosecrans to hold his position at or about Chattanooga, because if held from that place to Cleveland, both inclusive, it keeps all Tennessee clear of the enemy, and also breaks one of his most important railroad lines.
If we can hold Chattanooga and East Tennessee, I think the rebellion must dwindle and die.
I now think the enemy will not attack Chattanooga, and I think you will have to look out for his making a concentrated drive at Burnside.
MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Chattanooga, Tenn: There has been no battle recently at Bull Run.
Dispatches up to 12 last night from Chattanooga show all quiet and doing well.
MAJOR-GENERAL GRANT: Understanding that your lodgment at Chattanooga and Knoxville is now secure, I wish to tender you, and all under your command, my more than thanks, my profoundest gratitude, for the skill, courage, and perseverance with which you and they, over so great difficulties, have effected that important object.
GENERAL GRANT, Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Indiana delegation in Congress, or at least a large part of them, are very anxious that General Milroy shall enter active service again, and I share in this feeling.
General Blair was, by temporary assignment of General Sherman, in command of a corps through the battles in front of Chattanooga, and in the march to the relief of Knoxville, which occurred in the latter days of November and early days of December last, and of course was not present at the assembling of Congress.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, December 16, 1864 OFFICER IN COMMAND at Chattanooga, Tenn.