Report on the New York Monuments at Chattanooga and Proceedings of Dedication of the Central Historical Memorial or Peace Monument on Lookout Mountain

New York (State) Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg, Chattanooga and Antietam

Published by J. B. Lyon Company, 1928

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1st Edition published by J. B. Lyon Co. in 1928. Uncommon - VERY GOOD CONDITION. Light wear on cover and no marks in text. Binding is tight and square. ix, 194 pages including 1 illustration, tables frontispiece, plates, portraits, maps 28 cm. . . . . . . . . This volume opens with a substantial historical narrative of the Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps, tracing their organization and movements from the Shenandoah Valley through Second Manassas, the Maryland Campaign, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, then following their transfer west to Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia. It covers the investment and siege of Chattanooga, Grant's assumption of overall command, Brown?s Ferry, Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, the Confederate retreat toward Georgia, and subsequent actions at Ringgold and Knoxville, with detailed treatments of strengths and losses, casualty lists for New York officers and regiments, and notes on where New York regiments and batteries were organized. The second portion turns from operations to commemoration, describing Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, the work of the New York Monuments Commission, and the selection of sites and erection of New York monuments there, culminating in the dedication of the Central Historical Memorial or Peace Monument on Lookout Mountain. It prints the full order of exercises and addresses at these ceremonies - by figures such as Daniel E. Sickles, Levi P. Morton, Daniel Butterfield, and others - along with accounts of the dedication of the park in 1895 and organizational tables for the Union and Confederate armies engaged at Chattanooga, thus combining campaign history, regimental data, and the complete documentary record of New York's monument program on those fields.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Report on the New York Monuments at Chattanooga and Proceedings of Dedication of the Central Historical Memorial or Peace Monument on Lookout Mountain
• Publisher: J. B. Lyon Company
• Publication Date: 1928
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: None
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