Chickamauga

[mt155]

I was bored the other night and made a slide show of my trip to Chickamauga. Have a look.

 

[diane]

According to the stats, I was the first viewer! That was very nice indeed. What is the music?

I was struck by something. Some of those monuments were right in people's front yards! Is it really built up that much?

 

[Glorybound]

I was bored the other night and made a slide show of my trip to Chickamauga. Have a look.

You should get bored more often, Mike. Excellent presentation, had no idea there were that many monuments at Chickamauga, I definitely will visit there someday. Especially liked the banjo and fiddle music that you put with the photos...great job.

Lee

 

[PlowKing]

I was bored the other night and made a slide show of my trip to Chickamauga. Have a look.

thanks for posting.....I was there in 1994.

 

[mt155]

The music is John Hartford's version of Bonapart's Retreat.
@Lee, there are numerous monuments and tablets there. My wife and I spent three days there and we still missed a bunch.

 

[idocbrent]

Chickamauga you tube

Thank you!!! Thank you for posting!!

 

[Littlestown]

Very impressive! Makes me wish I was there. Someday...

 

[samp]

Super. I love Chickamauga and try to visit at least once per year. I helped build the split-rail fences that show up in some of the slides. You guys may want to check out the excellent book THE MAPS OF CHICKAMAUGA: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 - September 23, 1863 by Powell and Friedrichs.

cordially
samp

 

[Dugger]

Great show. Never been there. Thinking bout taking my daughter on a tour of Sherman's path to Atlanta this summer. I could check out Chickamauga first. Looks fairly flat. I don't do big hills very well these days...got pretty bad knee. Looks real natural and not touristry.

 

[TDMD]

Super. I love Chickamauga and try to visit at least once per year. I helped build the split-rail fences that show up in some of the slides. You guys may want to check out the excellent book THE MAPS OF CHICKAMAUGA: An Atlas of the Chickamauga Campaign, Including the Tullahoma Operations, June 22 - September 23, 1863 by Powell and Friedrichs.

cordially
samp

Dave Powell is a very good friend of mine. Have you read his new book, Failure In The Saddle? It is a very solid critique of Wheeler and Forrest from Tullahoma through the day after Chickamauga.

 

[TDMD]

Great show. Never been there. Thinking bout taking my daughter on a tour of Sherman's path to Atlanta this summer. I could check out Chickamauga first. Looks fairly flat. I don't do big hills very well these days...got pretty bad knee. Looks real natural and not touristry.

It's a great park. Great visitors' center. Great knowlegeable folks there like Jim Ogden and Lee White. Looks can be deceiving. If you stay on the major stops in the park, you'll be okay. If you go into the woods, you'll see tree trunk foot bridges, and the like. It gets slippery when it rains. I've gone down there with Dave Powell in March a few years ago and it rained - the trail was slippery as hell.

 

[TDMD]

thanks for posting.....I was there in 1994.

Very nice presentation. It's got me hankering to go down there again.

 

[samp]

Dave Powell is a very good friend of mine. Have you read his new book, Failure In The Saddle? It is a very solid critique of Wheeler and Forrest from Tullahoma through the day after Chickamauga.

I am headed to Amazon now.

Tell your friend Mr. Powell that his Maps of Chickamauga is one of my favorites of all of my books. Extremely well written and illustrated. I plan on reading it again this summer.


cordially
samp

 

[Lnwlf]

Great stuff and beautiful country. I was struck by the bird resting on the color bearers finger at the 2:32 mark. A dove perhaps?
Thanks for posting!

 

[TDMD]

I am headed to Amazon now.

Tell your friend Mr. Powell that his Maps of Chickamauga is one of my favorites of all of my books. Extremely well written and illustrated. I plan on reading it again this summer.


cordially
samp

My pleasure. I'll email him soon on that. Incidentally, his new book, Failure In The Saddle, just won the Atlanta CWRT Richard Barksdale Harwell award for best civil war book of 2010. Dave is working on Maps Of Chattanooga now.

Dave's research is fantastic. When we went down there in March 2007, Dave's back seat was lined with regiments on both sides neatly tucked in boxes.

 

[wilber6150]

My pleasure. I'll email him soon on that. Incidentally, his new book, Failure In The Saddle, just won the Atlanta CWRT Richard Barksdale Harwell award for best civil war book of 2010. Dave is working on Maps Of Chattanooga now.

Dave's research is fantastic. When we went down there in March 2007, Dave's back seat was lined with regiments on both sides neatly tucked in boxes.

Wow people really were smaller back then Seriously great pictures thank you for sharing them

 

[TDMD]

Wow people really were smaller back then Seriously great pictures thank you for sharing them

Will, actually someone else was nice enough to share those wonderful pictures.

And it was crowded in the back seat of Dave's car. :laugh2:

 

[Glorybound]

Yep, the youtube presentation in post #1 was put together by mt155, Mike, in Texas.

 

[kholland]

Great slide show. The battlefield reminds me very much of Antietam, not built up with tourist stuff and still pastoral (except for the monuments in people's front yards). Oh well! Time marches on.

 

[Smoothcat]

It's a great park. Great visitors' center. Great knowlegeable folks there like Jim Ogden and Lee White. Looks can be deceiving. If you stay on the major stops in the park, you'll be okay. If you go into the woods, you'll see tree trunk foot bridges, and the like. It gets slippery when it rains. I've gone down there with Dave Powell in March a few years ago and it rained - the trail was slippery as hell.

Agree about the folks working there. I had the pleasure of talking to Mr. Ogden about a project I'm currently putting together at work. We have a jewel of a park here in the Chattanooga area. In my experiences, Chickamauga is definitely ranked up there with Gettysburg and Antietam. Too bad most of the battlefields in and around the actual city of Chattanooga have been mostly destroyed and forgotten. There isn't a single building (to my knowledge) left in the city that was here during the war. What a travesty.