Occupied Chattanooga

The Waterfront

Chattanooga's Tennessee River waterfront underwent major changes during the Civil War. The Confederate troops who occupied the town in the spring of 1862 constructed forts and batteries near the river. When Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans army shelled Chattanooga ...

RCA Studio B

RCA Records established a recording studio in this building in Novemeber 1957, with local offices run by quitarist-producer Chet Atkins. Its success led to a larger studio, known as Studio A, built next door in 1964. Studio B recorded numerous ...

Headquarters Row

Generals and Ghosts

Beginning in 1862, Confederate Gens. Braxton Bragg, Daniel Ledbetter, and Joseph E. Johnston, followed by Union Gens. William S. Rosecrans and George H. Thomas, occupied the Greek Revival-style Richardson house, which stood nearby at 320 Walnut Street. When ...

More Enduring Than Marble

East Face of Monument:

More enduring than marble shall be the memory of the Confederate patriot in whose life fidelity to principle found loftiest expression.

West Face of Monument:

A tribute of love from the women of the south to the heroes of ...

Battle of Chattanooga, 3d Day, Nov. 25.

During the night of Nov. 24, 1863, Bragg's forces withdrew from the plain and Lookout and joined those on Missionary Ridge, occupying it from Rossville to Tunnel Hill, and a spur thence eastward to the Chickamauga. Sherman early on the ...

Confederates Occupy The Fort

At the beginnings of the Civil War, “amid the firing of cannon and the cheers of the people,” a local newspaper reported, Arkansas State Militia raised the Confederate flag and took control of Fort Smith on April 23, 1861.

With the ...

Battle of Chattanooga, 2d Day, Nov. 24.

During the night of Nov. 23, 1863, Gen. Sherman crossed the Tennessee at the mouth of the Chickamauga, under orders to carry the north end of Missionary Ridge to the railroad tunnel. He seized the ground now known as Sherman ...

Temple Quarry Trailhead

Pioneer workmen transported basalt stone

blocks for construction of the Saint George

LDS Temple foundation by wagon over this

"Temple Quarry Trail".

Completion of the trailhead, archway, and

access to the trail has long been Dr. Mark H,

Greene's dream. The City of Saint George

dedicates ...

The Old Franklin Congregational Academy

This memorial

erected on the site of

The Old Franklin

Congregational Academy

Pioneer Founders and Educators were:

E. B. James · A. E. Rice · W. S. Phipps

Rev. Amos Dresser · Rev. C. S. Harrison

Reve. W. S. Hampton · Prin. A. C. Hart

Rev. G. W. ...

Battle of Chattanooga, 1st Day, Nov. 23

November 23d, 1863, under instructions from Gen. Grant to ascertain whether the Confederates still occupied the valley, Gen. Thomas disposed forces in front of Fort Wood, the site of which is now marked by the stand-pipe of the water works.

The ...