Overlooking Chattanooga and the Tennessee River Valley from a Confederate artillery position in Point Park high atop Lookout Mountain. Conference participants spent most of Saturday afternoon touring Civil War sites important in the battles for Chattanooga on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.
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Conference goers on the porch of the old Craven's house looking off Lookout Mountain into the valley in which Chattanooga is located. The house was a major site in the Union battle to take Lookout Mountain from Braxton Bragg's Confederate army. |
| The graves of Andrew's raiders lie around a monument depicting the railroad engine "The General." Andrew's raiders were attempting to burn rail bridges on the line from Atlanta to Chattanooga when they were captured by the Confederates. The union men, most of whom were from Ohio, were hanged as spies on June 18, 1862. Their bodies were later buried in the Chattanooga National Cemetery. |  |
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University of South Florida at St. Petersburg's Bob Dardenne said the tour of the Chattanooga battlefields was an opportunity to visit with other conference participants as well as a chance to see Civil War sites of Chattanooga. |
National Park Service Historian Jim Ogden shown here in the photograph on the left standing beside a historical marker, explained the Missionary Ridge battlefield to the journalism historians. The "Bragg Reservation" overlooks Chattanooga's southern end of Missionary Ridge, the site of Bragg's defeat by U.S. Generals Grant, Thomas, and Sherman. |
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University of Memphis' Doug Cupples in the photo on the left celebrated the end of the 1995 meeting with a "rack" of Chattanooga style barbecue ribs during the conference's ending "soiree." A barbecue dinner at Smokies has become a tradition of the Antebellum Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression Conference. |
Dr. David Sachsman
311 Frist Hall
Communication Department
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403-2598
e-mail: dsachsma@cecasun.utc.edu
Last updated: March 9, 1998.
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