Wheeler burns the Chattanooga wagon train at Anderson's Cross Roads
October 2, 1863, Anderson's Cross Roads, Walden's Ridge, Tennessee.
- Date
- October 2, 1863
- Where
- Anderson's Cross Roads, Walden's Ridge, Tennessee
- What happened
- Burned
- Event
- 87 of 174
With Chattanooga besieged, Union supplies came 60 miles by wagon from the Bridgeport railhead over Walden's Ridge. On October 2 Wheeler's cavalry surprised a train of 800 mule-drawn wagons at Anderson's Cross Roads and burned it. Over the raid he destroyed about 500 wagons by Rosecrans's estimate.
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