Kammala wannan magana: Bayan nasarar da ya yi na kawar da Siege na Chattanooga, Janar Grant yanzu ya yanke shawarar a kan wani biyu kewaye na Bragg ta sojojin. An umurci Manjo Janar William T. Sherman ya kai hari tare da mutane 20,000 daga arewa tare da Missionary Ridge, yayin da Manjo Janar Joseph Hooker ya umurce shi da ya kai hari daga kudu tare da Dutsen Lookout, ya mamaye sojojin Kudu a can, sa'an nan kuma ya ci gaba da yankewa Bragg koma baya yayin da Sherman da Thomas suka buge shi daga arewa da yamma. Gasar ta fara ne a safiyar ranar 24 ga Nuwamba, yayin da Hooker
ya kori sojojin Confederate daga Lookout Mountain a cikin abin da ake kira "Battle Above the Clouds", yayin da Sherman ya haye Kogin Tennessee kuma ya dauki matsayi a kan abin da ya yi tunanin cewa shi ne gefen gefen Missionary Ridge - kawai don sanin cewa ya mallaki wani dutse mai kusa, wanda ake kira Billy Goat Hill, a maimakon haka. Na 33 Alabama, wanda aka kafa a kudancin kudancin Missionary Ridge kusa da hedkwatar Bragg, ya ji muryoyin yakin a kan Lookout Mountain, amma ba zai iya ganin aikin ba saboda hazo mai yawa wanda ya rufe shi.