Missionary Ridge

ridge in SE Tenn. & NW Ga.: site of a Union victory (1863) in the Civil War

Origin: after the Brainerd Mission there

See Missionary Ridge in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A range of hills in southeast Tennessee and northwest Georgia. It was the site of an important Union victory (November 25, 1863) in the Civil War.

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