Battery E Pennsylvania Volunteers (CLICK ON ALL IMAGES TO ENLARGE.) |
The best art gallery in Chattanooga, Tenn., may be on Orchard Knob, site of Ulysses Grant's headquarters during the Battle of Missionary Ridge. The bubble of earth in a working-class neighborhood is studded with magnificent Civil War monuments. On a brisk Saturday afternoon, I had this free outdoor gallery all to myself. About a mile away rises Missionary Ridge; its larger cousin, Lookout Mountain, rises in far distance. What a sight.
10th Michigan monument. |
Close-up of bas-relief bronze plaque on 10th Michigan monument. |
New York state monument. |
27th Pennsylvania monument. |
The Illinois monument and Missionary Ridge in the distance. |
109th Pennsylvania monument |
Monument to 5th and 20th Connecticut |
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Battery E Pennsylvania Volunteers monument (foreground) and others on the west side of Orchard Knob. |
Illinois monument with Lookout Mountain in the distance. |
Thanks for posting these splendid views.
ReplyDeleteThese monuments are impressive. Standing in tribute to their memory across the generations. May we never forget their struggle and sacrifice.
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