Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lectures on the Civil War. VII. Chattanooga. John Fiske, LL. D. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 4.30 p. m. Admission by ticket only...
Lectures on the Civil War. VII. Chattanooga. John Fiske, LL.D. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 4.30 p. m. Admission by ticket only...
...lectures will all be illustrated with stereoptican views and the object of the course is to show the part which the effects of the western campaigns played in the Civil War. They begin with St. Louis and end with Grant's victory at Chattanooga in the fall of 1863. This afternoon Dr. Fiske will begin by calling attention to the importance of the work done by General Lyon and Francis Blair in Missouri in the early summer of '61, and will go on with the main out-lines of the Western story as far as Donelson...
...Chattanooga...
...peculiar interest attaches to the campaign through its wildly picturesque and beautiful surroundings, but in the military ability displayed by the great leaders, and in the reckless courage of the troops, Chattanooga has become a monument to the defenders of the Union. Its strategie results cannot be overestimated. Grant, having crushed one flank and the centre of the Confederacy, was now called to crush the one vigorous point of resistance, Lee in Virignia...