Chattanooga

Chattanooga
noun
1. a city in eastern Tennessee
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑city, ↑metropolis, ↑urban center
• Part Holonyms: ↑Tennessee, ↑Volunteer State, ↑TN
2. 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
• Regions: ↑Tennessee, ↑Volunteer State, ↑TN
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑pitched battle

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Chattanooga [Chattanooga]
a US city in the state of ↑Tennessee. It is on the Tennessee River and next to Lookout Mountain. During the American Civil War, Union soldiers climbed the mountain to defeat the Southern army at the Battle of Chattanooga (1863). The city is also well known because of the song Chattanooga Choo Choo.

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