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During the last half of the 60 day siege of Chattanooga in 1863, Union troops on the west side of Lookout Creek fought almost daily with Confederates on this side. Each side wanted control of the creek's bridges. Hooker's Corps Reports
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Trail of Tears In 1838, nearly 2,000 Cherokee, their enslaved Africans, and others stopped at Brown's Ferry (a few yards to your left) and gazed across the Tennessee River toward the landing on the opposite bank. They must have been consumed wi…
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(preface)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 Mis…
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Tennessee AMVETS dedicates this memorial to all veterans living or deceased who have honorably served their country that freedom may reign April 17, 1999 Governor Don Sundquist
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Chattanooga, nestled along the banks of the Tennessee River and the northern gateway to the Georgia railroad system, was strategically important to both the United States and the Confederacy in the Civil War. Lookout Mountain (Exits 175 and 178) w…
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[Front Side of Monument]: To the New York Troops in Howard's Eleventh Corps of Hooker's Command, 11th and 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac, at Wauhatchie, October 28 - 29, 1863. Steinwehr's Division.134th N.Y. Infantry, Buschbeck's Brigade154…
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[Front Side of Monument] 78th New York Infantry137th New York Infantry149th New York Infantry Greene's - Third BrigadeGeary's - Second DivisionSlocum's - Twelfth Corps Hooker's Command11th and 12th CorpsArmy of the Potomac Oct. 28-29 1…
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Two miles south, over 3,000 Federal troops crossed Lookout Creek in thick fog at dawn. They lined up from the creek to base of cliffs above and charged north along the mountainside over slashed timber and deep ravines crumpling the Confederate lef…
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This Cherokee sub-chief lived in the area to the north of the road following the expulsion of his tribe from Georgia and until their forced removal to Indian Territory in 1838. An influential citizen here, he had served in Col. Gideon Morgan's Che…
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2½ mi. Here 3 brigades of hood's Division, Confederate Army of Tennessee under Brig. Gen. Micah Jenkins, made a night attack against Geary's Division of the XII Corps, guarding the recently opened "Cracker Line" to Bridgeport, Ala. The attack…
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