Lookout Mountain

[Blockaderunner]

Now 20 years since I visited Lookout Mountain. Would love to return one day.

 

[KianGaf]

It's a beautiful view up there. A trip on the incline railway is well worth it. I found it a really enjoyable day.

 

[KianGaf]

 

[RLowe]

Really nice pictures.

 

[19thOhio]

First picture. Brown's Ferry about halfway up around the bend (left side) where Hazen and Turchin attacked on October 27, 1863. Led to reopening the Federal supply line at Chattanooga.
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Another assault on Lookout Mountain occurred on September6, 1863, several weeks before the "Battle Above the Clouds." General Samuel Beatty led the 1st Brigade from the Wauhatchie River up the Nickajack Trace to intercept and capture a Rebel signal corps positioned at the top. The brigade was led by the 19th Ohio under command of Charles Manderson. Other regiments included the 9th Kentucky, 79th Indiana and the 17th Kentucky. The route was so steep that the officers had to dismount their horses in order to get them to the crest of the mountain.

The Rebels had time to escape. The brigade continued along the summit toward Chattanooga. There they got a good view of Chattanooga and the fortifications the Confederates had been constructing. From this height, the regiment could see clouds of dust down in the valleys as Confederate troops marched below Rossville and Ringgold, Georgia.

J.A. Reep wrote for the National Tribune in 1891:
There was spread out before us for our inspection that great amphitheater on the arena of which two months later was enacted the
great drama in the war of the Rebellion which ended the defeat of Bragg, and his army and the opening of east Tennessee to the Union Armies.