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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LB0_camp-contraband_Chattanooga-TN.html
Camp Contraband was the name given to an encampment that existed on this site during the Civil War. The camp was a haven for a large number of refugees, most of whom were liberated slaves seeking safety within the Union lines. The former slaves we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L3Z_united-states-colored-troops_Chattanooga-TN.html
Initially fearful of allowing black troops in battle, the Union army employed them as laborers, construction workers and guards. U.S.C.T. regiments supervised black women and children crowded not disease-ridden camps outside Tennessee cities. They…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L1T_1864-military-bridge_Chattanooga-TN.html
The first bridge crossing of the Tennessee River at Chattanooga was erected in 1864 under the order of Montgomery Meigs, Quartermaster General of the Union armies. This clearing highlights the alignment where the wooden bridge, with its trestled n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L0Z_finding-a-hidden-treasure_Chattanooga-TN.html
How did the National Park Service find the Brown's Ferry Federal Road trace, a small portion of a larger road network that radiated throughout the United States and its territories?
With the road hidden by the dense undergrowth of trees and bru…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L0X_a-trace-of-the-past_Chattanooga-TN.html
...we walked by a corduroy road two or three miles across the spit of land enclosed by the bend in the river.
Henry Y. Thompson
November 24, 1863
The road trace you see before you is rich with history. In 1805, the surrounding forest echoed w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L09_browns-ferry-federal-road_Chattanooga-TN.html
Welcome to Moccasin Bend National Archaeological District, a unit of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. Prehistoric and historic sites located on Moccasin Bend reveal varying stories of human occupation spanning 12,000 years. Howe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L02_wilders-artillery-position_Chattanooga-TN.html
The summer of 1863 had been a bad one for the Confederate cause. Severe defeats at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, together with the forced retreat of the Army of Tennessee from Tullahoma prompted President Jefferson Davis to declare August 21 to be a d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1F2T_chattanooga-high-school_Chattanooga-TN.html
The first public high school in the city and county, it was organized Dec., 1874, in the Second District School on College Hill, following classes started by then superintendent, Henry D. Wyatt, in his office a year earlier. First graduation was i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AY7_attack-at-suck-creek_Chattanooga-TN.html
After the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans retreated to Federal-occupied Chattanooga, a strategically vital rail center, where Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg laid siege from Lookout Mountain and Missionary R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM146Z_union-block-house_Chattanooga-TN.html
Block houses were built during the Civil War for use as defensive position to protect critical assets. The military bridge spanning the river located here was protected by a block house similar to the example pictured here.
Block houses were co…