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Chattanooga Cordially Invites You to a Barbeque at Crawfish Springs, Walker County, Georgia September 20, 1889

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File Name	shades_chc_0012.tif
Title	Chattanooga Cordially Invites You to a Barbeque at Crawfish Springs, Walker County, Georgia September 20, 1889
Alternate Title	Invitation to Barbeque Dedication of Chickamauga National Battlefield Park
Date	1889
Genre	Ephemera
Material/Technique	chromolithograph
Description	Several vignettes showing a uniformed Union and Confederate veteran preparing for a barbeque by selecting a pig and building a fire. Crossed pipes with the letters "CV" and "A of C" frame a scene with a train crossing an elevated track over a river with a waterwheel. The stars and stripes appears at left. Two crawfish appear above text at bottom.
Historical note	This barbeque, held at Crawfish Springs, Georgia, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, was the first joint Blue-Gray reunion organized in Tennessee. Veterans of the Army of the Cumberland, led during the war by Confederate General Rosecrans, reunited with Union soldiers near the site of the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1889. In 1890, Chickamauga was appropriated $325,000 as the first American battlefield to be preserved by Congress. The development of the area, including rail infrastructure, made the location, then called Crawfish Springs, an accessible and pleasant vacation spot.
Subject	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Reunions; Railroads
Theme	The Persistence of Memory
Story	Reunions and Tourism
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga; United States--Georgia--Chickamauga
Time period	1880-1889
Language	eng
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Contributing Institution	Chattanooga History Center
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,30
Archival file	shades3/shades_chc_0012.tif