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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L15_rosss-landing_Chattanooga-TN.html
The Union army's efforts to capture the strategic rail center of Chattanooga met with success here at Ross's Landing. Following a series of dramatic marches and feints, elements of General Rosecrans's army appeared on Stringer's Ridge across the r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L10_crossing-into-history_Chattanooga-TN.html
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…
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/HM1KZV_cameron-hill_Chattanooga-TN.html
After the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863, Union General William S. Rosecrans retreated to Federal-occupied Chattanooga, a strategically vital rail center, where Confederate General Braxton Bragg laid siege from Lookout Mountain and Missio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZL_cleburnes-fort_Chattanooga-TN.html
The Confederate Army of Tennessee occupied Chattanooga in early July, 1863. The Confederates were expecting the pursuing Federal Army of the Cumberland to cross the Tennessee River well above Chattanooga, cut off the Confederate forces at Knoxvill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KET_missionary-ridge-school_Chattanooga-TN.html
You are standing just west of the site of the former Missionary Ridge Elementary School now occupied by Bragg Point condominiums which were built in 2008. Pictured are the student body and faculty of Missionary Ridge School in 1915. Enrollment …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G8V_osterhaus-division_Chattanooga-TN.html
Osterhaus' Division - Blair's Corps Brigadier General Peter J. Osterhaus. Nov. 25, 1863, 3 P.M. 1st Brigade, Brigadier General Charles R. Woods. 2d Brigade, Colonel James A. Williamson. This division, being the head of General Hooker's Column, re…
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