Editing Ooltewah, Tennessee (section)

==History==
Ooltewah was the [[county seat]] of [[James County, Tennessee|James County]], a former Tennessee county that went bankrupt in 1919 and was subsequently incorporated into [[Hamilton County, Tennessee|Hamilton County]]. The former [[James County Courthouse]] located in the square in downtown Ooltewah is the community's major landmark.<ref>[http://info.stfrancisooltewah.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/parishprofile2.pdf About Ooltewah and Chattanooga Area] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728055554/http://info.stfrancisooltewah.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/parishprofile2.pdf |date=July 28, 2011 }}, St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church website, accessed March 7, 2010</ref> It is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].

[[Alfred Cate]] (1822&ndash;1871), a resident of Ooltewah, was a prominent Southern Unionist and leader in the [[East Tennessee bridge burnings|East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy]].  Cate and his men destroyed three Chattanooga-area railroad bridges on the night of November 8, 1861, in hopes of paving the way for a Union invasion of East Tennessee.<ref name=temple>Oliver Perry Temple, [[Mary Boyce Temple]] (ed.), "[https://books.google.com/books?id=1JYlAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22alfred+m.+cate%22&pg=PA85 Alfred M. Cate]," ''Notable Men of Tennessee'' (Cosmopolitan Press, 1912), pp. 85-88.</ref>

On November 24, 1863, the 4th Michigan Cavalry entered Ooltewah and captured seventeen Confederates, including two officers, and destroyed a train of four wagons. On the next day, the 4th Michigan Cavalry destroyed the Ooltewah railroad bridge, burned 4,000 pounds of flour, and captured a Confederate Lieutenant Colonel before moving on to [[Cleveland, Tennessee|Cleveland]] before nightfall.