C - The Union wanted to use the city as a base to cut the Confederacy in two, by driving the rebel army to the sea.
Choose the one sentence from the excerpt that confirms why the Union army kept trying to take Chattanooga.
A-Choose the one sentence from the excerpt that confirms why the Union army kept trying to take Chattanooga.
B-Choose the one sentence from the excerpt that confirms why the Union army kept trying to take Chattanooga.
C-The Union wanted to use the city as a base to cut the Confederacy in two, by driving the rebel army to the sea.
D-The Union had been unsuccessfully trying to take Chattanooga for more than a year.
E-The Union army dug in at Chattanooga.
F-In September 1863, Union troops attacked the Confederate army southeast of Chattanooga, but were pushed back at the bloody Battle of Chickamauga.
H-The Confederates surrounded the city for the next two months, waiting for the Union troops to run out of food.
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