Battle of Wauhatchie and Browns Ferry

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Visited these three rarely visited sites off the beaten track here in Chattanooga. First I tried to visit the location of the Union troops landing on the side of Browns Ferry. It is owned ny the American Battlefield Trust, but it is blocked off with no trespassing signs. No idea why? Then headed to Wauhatchie to visit the two battle sites there and then the opposite side of Browns Ferry which opened up the Cracker line.
 
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Visited these three rarely visited sites off the beaten track here in Chattanooga. First I tried to visit the location of the Union troops landing on the side of Browns Ferry. It is owned ny the American Battlefield Trust, but it is blocked off with no trespassing signs. No idea why? Then headed to Wauhatchie to visit the two battle sites there and then the opposite side of Browns Ferry which opened up the Cracker line.
Nice. I visited Wauhatchie in June 2016 as part of a group tour with Jim Ogden as a tour guide but had done no reading on the battle and had no knowledge of it beforehand. I am almost done with a book from the Emerging Civil War Series by Dave Powell about Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain. There is a chapter on Wauhatchie. I'm sure Jim Ogden talked about it being a night battle during the 2016 tour but that fact didn't stick in my head. It was an interesting read in Dave Powell's book. A well-outnumbered Union force won. The Confederate forces were afraid of being out-flanked and cut off from their only route of retreat.
 
iirc there was an initial 'attack at night where some Yanks swam nekid with arms across the river to secure a foot hold.
 
iirc there was an initial 'attack at night where some Yanks swam nekid with arms across the river to secure a foot hold.
Bet that water was cold too. :cold:
 
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