The National Military Park, Chickamauga -- Chattanooga: An Historical Guide ...Robert Clarke Company, 1895 - 307 pages |
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Page 221
... secretary . The large tent was crowded to its capacity by strong repre- sentations of both armies and leading citizens interested with them . Addresses , setting forth the features of the Park project and indorsing it with great ...
... secretary . The large tent was crowded to its capacity by strong repre- sentations of both armies and leading citizens interested with them . Addresses , setting forth the features of the Park project and indorsing it with great ...
Page 243
... Secretary After a full explanation of the project , it was enthusiastically indorsed , and officers and directors to represent the Confederate side were elected . The next day a quorum of incorporators was held at Crawfish Springs ...
... Secretary After a full explanation of the project , it was enthusiastically indorsed , and officers and directors to represent the Confederate side were elected . The next day a quorum of incorporators was held at Crawfish Springs ...
Page 250
... Secretary , MARCUS J. WRIGHT , Washington , D. C. Treasurer , J. S. FULLERTON , St. Louis , Mo. The charter of the Association has a life of twenty years . Such was the organization under which the project of a Military Park at ...
... Secretary , MARCUS J. WRIGHT , Washington , D. C. Treasurer , J. S. FULLERTON , St. Louis , Mo. The charter of the Association has a life of twenty years . Such was the organization under which the project of a Military Park at ...
Page 253
... Secretary of War may arrange with all who desire to remain to lease their lands at a nominal rent , the conditions on their side being that they will aid in the care of the grounds and in preserving all the natural features of the field ...
... Secretary of War may arrange with all who desire to remain to lease their lands at a nominal rent , the conditions on their side being that they will aid in the care of the grounds and in preserving all the natural features of the field ...
Page 258
... passage of the bill with the amendment on page 6 , which is inserted for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of War to take advantage of the coming season in expediting the establishment of the 258 THE NATIONAL MILITARY PARK .
... passage of the bill with the amendment on page 6 , which is inserted for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of War to take advantage of the coming season in expediting the establishment of the 258 THE NATIONAL MILITARY PARK .
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advance Alabama Alexander's Bridge army Artillery assault attack Baird's Division Battery battle field battle of Chickamauga Bragg Bragg's Headquarters Brannan's Breckinridge's Brig Brig.-Gen Brigade Brotherton's Brown's Ferry Capt Cavalry Chattanooga Cheatham's Division Cleburne Cleburne's column command Confederate Crawfish Springs crest Crittenden's crossing Cumberland Derveer's Dyer Field east engaged Fayette Road fighting flank forces Forrest's front Georgia Gordon Granger Gordon's Mill Hindman's Hood's Hooker's House Illinois Indiana infantry James Jay's Mill John Johnson's Division Kelly Field Kentucky Lee and Gordon's Lieut Lieut.-Col Longstreet's Lookout Mountain Maj.-Gen McFarland's Gap miles Missionary Ridge Mississippi moved night o'clock Orchard Knob Park position reached rear Reed's Bridge regiments Reynolds river Roger Q Rosecrans Rossville Rossville Gap Second Brigade September 20th Sherman's side Smith Snodgrass Hill South Carolina Tennessee Third Brigade Thomas troops Tunnel Hill Union army Union line Viniard's Walker's Walthall's Brigade Wauhatchie Widow Glenn's William Wood's woods
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Page 234 - You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
Page 266 - ... destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic?
Page 109 - ... be given as might be desirable. However, the general plan, you understand, is for Sherman, with the force brought with him, strengthened by a division from your command, to effect a crossing of the Tennessee river just below the mouth of...
Page 293 - The suggestion of a movement by our right, immediately after the battle, to the north of the Tennessee, and thence upon Nashville, requires notice only because it will find a place on the files of the department. Such a movement was utterly impossible for want of transportation. Nearly half our army consisted of reinforcements just before the battle, without a wagon or an artillery horse, and nearly, if not quite, a third of the artillery horses on the field had been lost. The railroad bridges, too,...
Page 153 - Lucien Greathouse 97th Indiana, Col. Robert F. Catterson 99th Indiana, Col. Alexander Fowler 53d Ohio, Col. Wells S. Jones 70th Ohio, Maj. William B. Brown Artillery Capt. Henry Richardson 1st Illinois Light, Battery F, Capt. John T. Cheney 1st Illinois Light, Battery I, Lieut. Josiah H. Burton 1st Missouri Light, Battery D, Lieut. Byron M. Callender SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS SECOND DIVISION Brig.
Page 293 - It also left open to the enemy, at a distance of only ten miles, our battle field, with thousands of our wounded and his own, and all the trophies and supplies we had won. All this was to be risked and given up for what ? To gain the enemy's rear and cut him off from his depot of supplies by the route over the mountains, when the very movement abandoned to his unmolested use the better and more practicable route, of half the length, on the south side of the river. It is hardly necessary to say, the...
Page 111 - ... right and centre, and a movable column of one division in readiness to move wherever ordered. This division should show itself as threateningly as possible on the most practicable line for making an attack up the valley. Your effort...
Page 263 - ... trees or underbrush under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, and that they will assist in caring for and protecting all tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works as may from time to time be erected by proper authority. SEC.
Page 262 - An act to authorize the condemnation of land for sites of public buildings, and for other purposes...
Page 293 - Nearly half our army consisted of reinforcements just before the battle, without a wagon or an artillery horse, and nearly, if not quite, a third of the artillery horses on the field had been lost. The railroad bridges, too, had been destroyed to a point south of Ringgold, and on all the road from Cleveland to Knoxville. To these insurmountable difficulties were added the entire absence of means to cross the river, except by fording at a few precarious points too deep for artillery, and the wellknown...