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with more than 600 monuments and markers guiding visitors through the battleground's history. During the Civil War, Chattanooga was considered an attractive area for its railroads, natural ...
Visitors marked Memorial Day with booming tributes and candlelit remembrance at two historic Chattanooga sites.
Chattanooga area cemeteries are the final resting places of many Civil War veterans ... burial site in the older section of Chattanooga Memorial Park in Red Bank). Born in Ohio, John MacGowan ...
A monument from that occupation stands ... and skirmishes in the vicinity of Chattanooga during the Civil War, compiled from the Official Record of the War of the Rebellion, Wikipedia, Armstrong ...
With the Emancipation Proclamation failing to end the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln ... decorated the graves of Union soldiers on Memorial Day in cemeteries in Chattanooga and throughout the South.
Soldiers were impressed that something grand, terrible, impactful had happened here," said Jim Ogden, the National Park Service historian who has explored the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National ...
Despite soggy skies, hundreds gathered to honor fallen heroes by placing flags at Chattanooga National Cemetery.
It failed spectacularly. During the American Civil War, a group of Union soldiers commandeered a train and rode it toward the Confederate stronghold of Chattanooga, Tennessee, tearing up rail ...