Could Union general Ulysses S. Grant score a victory in this theater and retake the initiative? The Battle of Chattanooga was a solid military victory for the Union that re-established its ...

at Fort Donelson and at the Battle of Shiloh. Of his later victories, three that stood out were the Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and the Overland campaigns. At Vicksburg, Mississippi, Grant hoped to ...