Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The American Civil War's Battle of Lookout Mountain, also known as The Battle Above the Clouds took place on November 24, 1863 in southeastern Tennessee near Chattanooga. In the battle Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant captured Lookout Mountain and began to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.