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 ...

Thomas W. Lewis, in his three-volume set, "Zanesville and Muskingum County," told his readers about a monument honoring our Civil War veterans: “In the year 1924, funds raised by popular ...

Snopes found soldier details for "Jacob H. Millar" published by the National Park Service (NPS), which had originally filed it under "Jacob H./Miller." According to NPS records, Miller served as a ...

Besides his business and civic accomplishments, a series of tablets and markers in Chattanooga ... who died in the Civil War. It was renamed and federally stated as Memorial Day in 1971 to ...

A new generation of Civil War scholars ... of the lugubrious monuments beloved by conservative Southerners will allow an appreciation of the internal diversity of a war that claimed about 620,000 ...

A bloody civil war between ... reprieve from the war. In those days, the observatory was located at 23rd and E streets, about three blocks north of what is now the Lincoln Memorial site.

Grant’s critical capture of Vicksburg, the Chattanooga Campaign was launched ... Grant at Appomattox Court House, essentially ending the Civil War. After the fighting ceased, Barnum, Kiggins ...

Yes, said Jerome Meadows, who designed the Ed Johnson Memorial to help bring the city’s history to light, with reconciliation and healing. By Chris Moody CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — In 2018 ...

According to the Chattanooga News edition during that year, the monument cost $2,000 ... strong feelings don’t really know about the Civil War." Emily West is a reporter for The Tennessean ...

Civil War statues were erected to convey a very different message. Monument Avenue is the Virginia ... his commission after losing the battle of Chattanooga. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says ...

Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Chattanooga ... this day. Memorial Day is also for those Americans who died fighting for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, although ...

As Civil War veterans aged and died, he became a nationally known figure and received much recognition. He was the model for the GAR memorial monument “Last Survivor,” located in the ...