Wargaming Chattanooga - Lookout Mountain & Missionary Ridge

[ChrisBBB]

Last November, I visited the Chattanooga battlefield. This week, I got to wargame the battle. An intriguing scenario by Crispin Matson produced a thought-provoking and entertaining game. Full photo-AAR here:
https://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/2025/05/chattanooga-lookout-mountain-missionary.html

[vodkafan]

 I was literally just reading about this battle today in the  ACW history book The Longest Night. I will read your blogpost with interest.

[ChrisBBB]

Hadn't heard of that book. Are you getting a lot out of it? The use of excerpts from letters and diaries sounds interesting, but some reviewers (a minority) say it's heavy going and like reading a phone book.

[vodkafan]

Hadn't heard of that book. Are you getting a lot out of it? The use of excerpts from letters and diaries sounds interesting, but some reviewers (a minority) say it's heavy going and like reading a phone book.

I am loving it. It's 990 pages but it's not heavy going at all, I read it an hour a day at work during my break, so I am only taking in easily digestible chunks at a time. The maps are quite numerous for a history book, (of course being a wargamer I would like even more maps) and work sufficiently well to help understand a battleground and fix it in my head.
I found the book in a charity shop brand new for 50p hadn't even been read.
it's pretty well thumbed now though, it looks like it's been through a war itself. 
Interestingly The map of the Chattanooga battle looks very like your game representation, I recognised it instantly, so good job well done!

[ChrisBBB]

Great - 50p well spent, then!