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Powell, David A. Battle Above the Clouds: Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16–November 24, 1863. Emerging Civil War Series. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2017. ISBN 978-1-61121-377-5. The Meriwether Family Papers, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
On the northwest side of Lookout Mountain, Sunset Rock is a popular trailhead and tourist stop. It is part of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military State Park, the largest and oldest Civil War national park. [5] [6] Once known as Point Lookout, Sunset Rock provides a view of the Tennessee River, Signal Mountain and Prentice Cooper State Forest.
Signal Knob is the northern peak of Massanutten Mountain in the Ridge and Valley Appalachians with an elevation of 2,106 feet (642 m). [1] It is located in George Washington National Forest in Shenandoah County and Warren County in Virginia. The peak offers expansive views into the northern Shenandoah Valley and the town of Strasburg, Virginia.
Lookout Mountain Battlefield and Point Park; Moccasin Bend; On October 15, 1966, as with all historic areas already administered by the National Park Service, the military park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. On February 20, 2003, Public Law No: 108-7 added Moccasin Bend as a new unit of the park.
The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council 's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails .
The Maryland Park Service hopes to use the historic building to educate visitors about the Civil War Battle of South Mountain.
By May 5, Johnston's army was making slow progress on muddy roads and Stoneman's cavalry was skirmishing with Brig. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry, Johnston's rearguard. To give time for the bulk of his army to get free, Johnston detached part of his force to make a stand at a large earthen fortification, Fort Magruder, straddling the Williamsburg Road (from Yorktown), constructed earlier by ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia have uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War, including chimney bricks and musket balls ...