The Chattanooga (Tennessee) Campaign concludes: after two months of fighting, Major General Ulysses Simpson (a.k.a. Hiram Ulysses) Grant commanding the compulsory Union Military Division of the Mississippi defeats the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Tennessee, commanded by General Braxton Bragg.

       [restored 4/9/2022]

Subsequent Events:

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 179.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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