Chattanooga
Depot, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Years
- 1863-1865
CHATTANOOGA MILITARY RAILROADS
Union forces occupied Chattanooga on September 9, 1863. The city's converging railroads made it the starting point for Sherman's 1864 campaign, and the military railroads supplied his army from Chattanooga to Atlanta.
Then
Union forces occupied Chattanooga on September 9, 1863. The city's converging railroads made it the starting point for Sherman's 1864 campaign, and the military railroads supplied his army from Chattanooga to Atlanta.
Now
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern, CSX and smaller railroads run through Chattanooga today.
Served by
Nearby
- 0 miChattanooga rail junctionConfederate · Rail junction, Chattanooga, Tennessee
- 3 miUnion opens the Cracker Line into ChattanoogaOctober 28, 1863, Brown's Ferry, Chattanooga, Tennessee
- 6 miLookout Mountain Cave saltpeter worksConfederate · Niter works, Chattanooga, Tennessee
- 21 miNickajack Cave saltpeter worksConfederate · Niter works, Shellmound, Tennessee
- 24 miWheeler strikes Sherman's railroad at DaltonAugust 14, 1864, Dalton, Georgia
- 28 miBridgeport landing and shipyardUnion · Supply base, Bridgeport, Alabama