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General Grant and Staff on Lookout Mountain, 1863
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shades_tsla_0005a.tif
Creator
Linn
,
Royan
Title
General
Grant
and
Staff
on
Lookout
Mountain
,
1863
Alternate Title
Grant at scene of the "Battle above the Clouds"
Date
1863
Genre
Photographs
Description
General
Ulysses
S
.
Grant
on
Lookout
Mountain
near
Missionary
Ridge
in
1863
.
Four
men
in
uniform
pose
near
the
edge
of the
cliff
,
while
one
sits
further
back
on the
path
. The
other
four
are
identified
,
left
to
right
, as
General
John
A.
Rawlins
,
General
J
.
D
.
Webster
,
Colonel
Clark
B
.
Lagow
, and
Colonel
Killyer
.
Historical note
In
September
1863
, the
Union
brigade
holding
Chattanooga
since
that
summer
was
sequestered
by
Confederate
General
James
Longstreet's
troops
.
General
Grant
seized
Brown’s
Ferry
as
well
as
Wauhatchie
,
opening
up
a
supply
line
to the
beleaguered
Union
troops
.
General
Hooker
then
attacked
Lookout
Mountain
in what
became
known
as "The
Battle
above
the
Clouds”
on
November
25
.
Subject
United
States
--
History
--
Civil
War
,
1861-1865
;
Tennessee
--
History
--
Civil
War
,
1861-1865
;
Grant
,
Ulysses
S
.
(Ulysses
Simpson)
,
1822-1885
;
Rawlins
,
John
A.
(John
Aaron)
,
1831-1869
;
Webster
,
J
.
D
.
(Joseph
Dana)
,
1811-1876
;
Lagow
,
Clark
B.
,
d
.
1867
Theme
The Persistence of Memory
Visualizing the War
Story
Reunions and Tourism
Orlando Poe
Geographic Location
United
States
--
Tennessee
--
Lookout
Mountain
Time period
1860-1869
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on this
website
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for
individual
,
educational
use
only
. For
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inquiries
about
specific
objects
or
requests
for
high
resolution
images
,
contact
the
Tennessee
State
Library
&
Archives
.
Type
Still
image
Format
image/jp2
Contributing Institution
Tennessee State Library and Archives
Digital Publisher
Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL
http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,17
Archival file
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