Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin watan Satumba da farkon Oktoba, sojojin Cumberland sun ƙarfafa sojojin sojojin Tennessee, wanda Manjo Janar William Tecumseh Sherman ya ba da umurni, tare da ƙungiyoyi biyu daga Sojojin Potomac a karkashin Manjo Janar Joseph Hooker. Ulysses S. Grant, yanzu a cikin overall umurnin sojojin Union a yamma karkashin sabuwar kafa Soja Division na Mississippi, maye gurbin Rosecrans a umurnin da George H. Thomas; Grant yana da umurnin da hadedde Union sojojin. A lokacin safiya na ranar 27 ga Oktoba, sojojin Tarayyar sun kama Brown's Ferry, wanda ya bude hanyar samar da kayayyaki zuwa Alabama; An yi yunkurin kai hari a Wauhatchie a cikin daren Oktoba 28-29 don sake dawo da jirgin ruwa amma ya kasa. Bragg sannan a ranar 5 ga Nuwamba ya aika da Longstreet zuwa Knoxville da kuma kusan dukkanin dakarunsa, yana rage karfin sojojinsa; Bragg ya yi fatan cewa Grant zai tilasta shi ya raba wani ɓangare na ƙarfinsa don sauƙaƙe garuruwan Union a birnin. Harin karshe na Union a kan sojojin Confederate ya fara Nuwamba 24, lokacin da Hooker ya kama Lookout Mountain
kuma ya yi barazana ga Confederate hagu flank. Kashegari, Sherman ya kai farmaki ga gefen dama na Confederate a Missionary Ridge amma an kashe shi. Don taimakawa Sherman da kuma janye ƙungiyoyin Tarayya daga dama, Grant ya ba da umarnin zanga-zanga a kan cibiyar Tarayya. Wannan zanga-zangar da Thomas ya yi ya zama cikakken harin da ya karya ta hanyar Confederate line. Bragg ya koma arewacin Georgia, ya sake tattarawa a kusa da Dalton. An amince da bukatarsa ta sauƙaƙe a ranar 1 ga Disamba. Hardee ya dauki umurnin sojoji na wucin gadi, amma ya ki amincewa da tayin ko umarni na dindindin. Maimakon haka, Davis ya nada Joseph Johnston don ya jagoranci sojojin a watan Disamba na 1863.