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Definition of Chattanooga

1. Noun. A city in eastern Tennessee.

2. Noun. 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.

Definition of Chattanooga

1. Proper noun. A city in Tennessee near the border with Georgia ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chattanooga

Chastek Chastek paralysis Chateau-Thierry Chateaubriand Chateura Chateura pelagica Chatham Chatham Islands Penguins Chatham Islands penguin Chattahoochee

Chattahoochee River Chattanooga (current term) Chattanoogan Chattanoogans Chatty Cathy Chaubunagungamaug Chaucer Chaucerian Chaucerians Chaudhry

Chauffard Chauffard's syndrome Chauna Chauna torquata Chauncey Chausie

Literary usage of Chattanooga

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"The battlefields of Chickamauga and Chattanooga lie in great contiguous mountain valleys, parallel with each other, and almost parallel with the general ..."

2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"No further opposition was encountered in occupying Chattanooga, and the Ninety-second Illinois pushed rapidly into the town, followed by my First and Third ..."

3. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1865)
"The Chattanooga Lines. — Grant's Command. — The Military Division of the ... Cowardice and Ferocity of the Yankees. left Rosecrans in Chattanooga and ..."

4. Bulletin by Tennessee Division of Geology, Geological Survey, Division of Geology, Tennessee (1913)
"Overlying the "Rockwood" formation is the Chattanooga shale, ... The Chattanooga shale has a remarkably uniform character throughout the red iron ore region ..."

5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"I immediately moved over to Chattanooga Valley and drove back towards Chattanooga the force which was marching from that place. I then left the Eighth Texas ..."

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