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Reading From Left to Right Top Row: Maryland Monument on Orchard Knob; "Georgia Monument in Chickamauga Park; Illinois Monument on Missionary Ridge; South Carolina Monument ' in
r Chickamauga Park. Second Row Ohio Monument on Missionary Ridge; Carries' Battery in Chickamauga Park; Iowa Monument on the Side of Lookout Mountain near the Cravens House. Third
Row Snodgrass Place in Chickamauga Park; Brotherton House on Chickamauga ,B attlefield; View oiSnodgrass Hill, Chickamauga Park. v ' k
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OFFICIAL FIGURES GIVE
HONOR TO CHICKAMAUGA
Jroup of Monuments and Historic Points of Interest on
Cfiattanoog3;'s Battlefields Made Glorious by the
'' World's Greatest War Here Are Erected' Lasting
r Tributes in Marble and Bronze -by a Nation to Its
;V Heroic Soldiery. " ;
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(By J. Q. Mm, far PublloHy Cmml Chattanooga Raunion Ataoolatlon.)
Of aompantWalr raeant yaara mora or ronreda that Gettyiburr n a harfler-
leaa trlandlr rivalry ha azlatad batwaan
tha Various writer! wbo hara turned
their attantlon to tha ' battiaflalda of
Chlckamann and Oattyaburft tha rlTtlrr
beln aa to tha ralatlT Importanea of
aach Wtla,' tha peroantaga of loa of
aaeh. and tha eumbor of memorial!
areeted on thoao flalda of 1ery. It la
not enrprialnf. tharafora. that thla rl
alrr baa ibown Haelf, fifty yaara after
tha battlaa. clothed In new rarmenta of
pitch, but containing tha aama arru
Dienta. July t there la to ha a reunion on the
field of Qettytbnrc of both blue and
fray; tha orarnment bearing tha -penao
of all veterana enrnrrd In tha
lint tie and deelre to attend tha reunion.
Tha Confederate veteran hold their re
union at Chattanooga May I7-!" lncln.
alva, thla being tha eamtaentennlal year
of tha great battlee fought In and around
the Mountain City.
Champtona of Oettyahnrg. are bney
with their oene, arguing that high tide
f battle waa reached en that hlntorto
field and claiming more monumenu and
ti'tirkera for Gettysburg than any other
buitlefleld In the world.
All of thle la good, becaaee It creates
Irtereet In fields of glnry and Immortal
Ifpi American vnlnr, Chattanonaa w&uld
nnt n h i i-n ft-Mi t th lens! of rp j
iK'uiy 'l'!;i.(t) v.j tiiu.ii,a ihuie for ait k
fought battle than Chickamauga, or that
tha field of Gettysburg eontalna a greater
number of monnmenta, historical tablets.
markera and other memorials than tha
battlefields --ound thlo city.
rresiaent Lincoln. In his memorable
speech at Gettysburg, set aside that
field, to all intents and purposes, for
special care of tha government. Mil
Hons have been poured out by the na
tional government and state governments
for tha adornment of the field with mon
uments and other memorials. Perhaps
more money has been spent at Getty
burg In beautifying landscape and em
halmlng, valor In marble columns, but
Chattanooga beats Gettysburg In both
number of memorials and per cent of
casualties In battle.
Tha per cent of casualties at Gettys
burg waa 20; at Chlckamauaa It was n
Gettysburg, according to official fleures,
has, all told, about l.00 memorials on
her field. Tha official flgnros of the
Chattanooga-Chlckamaiiga Nstlnnat Tark
commission, published herewith, slio
that this field has more than 1.000 me
morial Gettysburg brats ChattannoRa
In costly monuments, but not much. Thla
field haa monuments to the number of a
little under tno. Gettysburg has MO.
Counting everything on both fields that
run lie Inrhnled nnrter tha head of "me-
oi.al i," Chattanooga la abuut 400 ahead
'"Ufc ......
The roar of battle at Gettysburg was
heard around tha world. The roar at
Chickamauga shook the earth. During
and bravery reached high tide at Get
tysburg with Pickett's Immortal charite.
but hlRh mark for dogged flKlitlne; and
casualties In war was set at ChU-ks-fnauga.:'
"War historians acres that, for
one day's fighting, the per cent, of cas
ualties at 8harpsbnrg or Antletam Is
the largest in the history of wars, and j
that for two days' fighting Chickamauga
has that distinction. The late Gen. John
B. Gordon, beloved Georgian, distin
guished lh peace and In war. wrote as
follows of- Chickamauga', ,
"An American buttle) tha auriiasfrd
in Hs ratio of carnage the bloodlwl
conflicts In history outside of this ,
country ought to be better understood
by the American people. Sharpsburg.
or Antletam! t believe, had larger
proportion of killed and wounded than
any other slnsle dafa battle of our
war, and that means lanter than any
In the world's wars. Chlckstnanga.
however. In -.its two days of heavy
fighting brouiht the ratio of iussee
to the high-water mark. Judge.; by
percentage In killed and. wounded.
Chlckamaiifta nearly doubled tbe snn
gulnary recorda of Marengo and Aus- ;
terllts; was two and one-half times
1 heavier than sustained by the Duk
nf Marlborough at M'.plaa.iot, more
than double that Buffered by the
army under Henry of Navarre In the
terrific slaughter at Contrast nearly
three times as heavy as the percent
age of Ion at Bolferlno and Magenta;
five times greater than that of Na
poleon at Wagram. and about ten
times as heavy aa that of Marshal
Paxa at bloody Racoux." Or, if we
take the averags percentage of loso
In a number of the world's great bat
tlesWaterloo, Wagram, Vnlmy. Ma
genta. Solferluo. Zurich and Lodl we
shall find by comparison that Chirk
' amauga'a record of blood surpassed
them nearly three for one." . ,
Gen. Gordon Is dead and gone; his elo
quent lips no longer sing the praises of
the Confederate soldier; his pen has
ceased to comhst prejudice, bnt his elo
quent description of tha great bottle of
Clili kamanga on the soli of his own be
loved state wtll Uva ae long as people
Jiea ln"-t In (pe-J lltrtur and
State Monuments, Markers, .Tablets and Batteries.
(Compiled by Col. 'Baxter Smith, Assistant Beeretary Chattanooga
. Chickamauga National Park Commission.) ' V
'- The following taole ahowa the numbeC of memorial monument and
marUwra of marble, granite and bronze, erected. In the Chickamausa and
Chattanooga National park.
Guna mounwd on enrrlages In battery In
Chickamauga park: ' - , ' " :- '' '
44 Union hattrls IMguna :.JL..
M CnnfderatF baMerlea , Mguna
In Chattanooga, tookmit mountain, Mia- - .
slnnnrv rlilaa and Orchnrd knobl ' . . .-
10 Union hntterlea !9giina
' 10 Conferterata batteries gOgun
Total , - , tit KUHM
P,rnni hiatnrlenl tablets. Chattanooga at .
Arm and eotoH headminriers shell rannumentl te
Memorial shell wtnnnmenla: nrlpade commander; killed:
S Union. 4 Confeedrates.
Historical tablets
total
art
180
. , . . Chickamauga II Chattanooga
" I ' Prk W "d Tlcmlty
' ! "' , ' Monu- Markerajj Mono- Markera
' menta- menta
Alnhama " r
CnrrertVcut ...; x t '
rm.d. M
tillnnl' T M l It It
Indiana I " i a
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rar , ; I
tfert"pkv ,..,.,.. .
nrvnnd "
!,.-.rhmettS .' ' 1 ' .
Tichlirnn 1 J . 1
imnnoaota ...
Mlaaoiiei , 1 J ;
New Jersey J
New York , ' .. .. .1
Ohio-;.. i.; ' : " w -
, PennsvH-snla , " , I . r -
Tenneisea "J - '
Wisconsin
South Carolina 1 tl
Tofa'l '..i.TVTl I 1 I " I "
TTnlted Bfntea, granite lo IJ. H. regular troopa,
, Twenty-threa shell monuments; , s " ' '
l.sndrom, on i
Carnes hatterv. ona -'
Iron nhwrvatlon towers, 70 feet high to observatory, flva. ,
Wilder' rrmnnment observation toWes, S feet high, on. -Poulevnrda
and aver's. 105 mllea completed.
Number of ncres Ir, park. d.96.
Erected by' Lndlca" Memorial association. Montgomery, Ala, to b
dedicated during (infedcraia rrunlon, 1D1S,
In course oi erection; to ba dedicated Juiing Contederat reunion,
W7. 1918.
ther'i bom waa not far from this field,
and aa a boy ha fished In Chickamauga
river, hunted In the woods that covered
the plain, and passed back and forth
with his father through the now historic
community. However, no contemporary
writer on war topics during den. Gor
don's llfetltre successfully disputed any
statement Vji made concerning that great
battle.. Be passed to his reward firm
In the belief that among the great bat
tles of history Chickamauga was entitled
to first place In point of deadly car
nage, percentage of loea and herolo cour
age on tha part of. the forces engaged
in It
.ill
.the Field today.
entertain repect for
I posnlbl that Ova.
It I enced somewhat by early associations In
was lflvh!s eithpst of Cilok"ia" jo, - His fa
lean valor.
Chickamauga today i baa that quiet
which . belong to all great battletelda.
Tb visitor to tb bistort Held or th
casual passerby la Impressed with tha
lmprorementa that have bean made.
Hundred of memorial dot tb Held and
engage the attention of tbe thoughtful.
Snodgraaa bill, where Gen.- Georga H.
Thomas checked In tb federal army
what at one time waa a disgraceful rout
and mad himself "th Kock of Chick-
araauga'" In history, la covered with
monuments and other memorhila. One
feela that ba treads upon hallowed
ground at tola spot, if the Visitor be
a dreamer be bears the roar of battle
and witnesses tn dash of th contend
ing legion aa thay cheerfully pay the
lost measure of herolo devotion with
their Uvea It I a melancholy thing to
cuntamplate brav mas giving' freely
their Uvea that valor . may by chiseled
into marble years later. '
These monuments, historical tablets.
markera and obaervatloa towera on th
battlefields of Chattanuoga, and espe
cially on the field of Chickamauga. out
number tha memorials on any battle
field In the world. If the decision of men
who have made th topi a special atudy
la baaed on fact They agree that th
United State leads all countries In th
matter of memorialising baltlefielda.
That la to aay, In erecting monumenu,
tablets and markera on its battlefield
tbe American repubus spend 1 mor
money than any other nation on earth.
And If tha data aecured through Official
channels eonoerninf Gettysburg and
Chattauooga Is to b relied oa aa end
ing tb argument, . UmW CVUanooj
lead th world la thla homag to valor
and courage.
Col John P. Nnicholeon, chairman of
tha Gettysburg National Park commi- ,
slon, hat furnished aome newspaper
writera recently with data covering tha
memorials at Gettyaburg. Various total
are deducted from theaa data, but none
are . higher than 1,700 and none lower
than 1,600. Th aama kind of data aup-
plled to newapapar writer during th
present month by the secretary of th
Chlckamauga-Chattanooga National Para
commission and by Capt J. P. Bmartt
historian of th park, plac tha ' total
number of memorial on th Chatta
nooga Bald at about 1,000. Thla aatlmat.
of th number of memorial at Chatta
nooga Include nothing la tha National
cemetery. , t4-
. The Coming Beunion. I
Th . rial tor to th Confederate r. ,
union her on May 17 -B will hav
splendid opportunity to view thea Bel da
and enjoy th aaaoclatlan that sur- t
round th great battlefields. These flalda
bar ' been - reclaimed and. beautified
against odd that at time seemed in
surmountable. But Confederate and fed
eral united In the work and tbe result
are written In the hundred of hand
some monnmenta, historical tablets,
markera and obaervatloa towers that
beautify mountain, rldgea and T alley
and stir patriotism la every aouL
Th outh baa a greater interest la)
Chsttanooga battlefields than In all
other combined. It th section of th
United " States that Ilea south of tha
Ohio river erer haa a field where coming
geneiatlona may atudy American valor
with object lessons before them. It must
be at Chattanooga. The heroic exploit,
of federal and Confederate are being
preserved here In Imperlshsble marble1 j
and bronaa, and th record must always'
be elevating to generations yet unborn, 1
The national government and the go
ernmenta of th states of th Union,
now that sectionalism baa run Ita corns t
and disappeared forever, are uniting
their wealth sod brain to beautify the
fields. A th year pass, aa genera
tions com and go, thea fields with ,
Will oritur.. nie much to the piia
tli I'ory, of t' Anieiicea 1 H !