Chickamauga and Chattanooga Administrative History

COVER

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I: ESTABLISHMENT AND DEDICATION OF CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

CHAPTER II: WAR DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER III: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER IV: THE MONUMENTS

CHAPTER V: PARK INTERPRETATION

CHAPTER VI: MILITARY USE OF THE PARK

CHAPTER VII: SPECIAL EVENTS

CHAPTER VIII: RECREATIONAL AND OTHER USE OF THE PARK

ENDNOTES

APPENDICES

A. List of incorporators, Chickamauga Memorial Association, 1889

B. Selected Directors, Chickamauga Memorial Association, 1889

C. Selected legislation affecting Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

D. Legal description, deed registration, and jurisdiction of properties, 1890-1916

E. Commissioners, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, 1890-1922

F. Superintendents, 1892-Present

G. National Park Service Senior History Personnel, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, 1933-Present

H. Location of Wells, 1898

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustration

1. Map of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

2. Action at Reed's Bridge, September, 1863

3. Battle of Chickamauga, September, 1863

4. Artillery on Lookout Mountain, November, 1863

5. Volunteer troops at Chickamauga Park, 1898

6a. Top: Sternberg Hospital, 1898
6b. Bottom: Troops practicing medical techniques, 1898

7. Ward in Sternberg Hospital, 1898

8a. Top: Train wreck at Rossville, Georgia, 1898
8b. Bottom: "Midway" at Lytle, Georgia, 1898

9a. Top: Latrines at Chickamauga Park, 1898
9b. Bottom: Livestock grazing at Bloody Pond, ca. 1900

10a. Top: Observation Tower at Bragg Reservation, ca. 1900
10b. Bottom: South Carolina State Monument, ca. 1901

11a. Top: Dedication of Georgia Monument, 1899
11b. Bottom: Entrance arch at Point Park, 1904

12a. Left: Wilder Tower, early 1900s
12b. Right: New York Peace Monument, Point Park

13a. Top: Cravens House and Point Hotel, 1905
13b. Bottom: Inclined railway, Lookout Mountain, ca. 1915

14a. Left: Illinois Monument, Orchard Knob, ca. 1900
14b. Right: Construction of the Ohio State Monument, ca. 1904

15a. Top: Troops bivouacked on Wilder Field, ca. 1906
15b. Bottom: Trees uprooted by 1908 storm, Snodgrass Hill

16a. Top: Parade ground at Fort Oglethorpe, ca. 1915
16b. Bottom: Infantry barracks at Brotherton Field, World War I

17a. Top: World War I structures on Brotherton Field
17b. Bottom: Monument and cantonment structures, East Viniard Field

18a. Top: Garden plots at World War I cantonment, Chickamauga Park
18b. Bottom: CCC camp at Chickamauga Battlefield, 1930s

19a. Top: Entrance to Camp Booker T. Washington, ca. 1934
19b. Bottom: CCC workers, 1930s

20a. Top: Ranger residence at Dyer Field, ca. 1920s
20b. Bottom: Dyer House, ca. 1930s

21a. Top: Park Administration Building, 1940
21b. Bottom: Ochs Observatory-Museum, Point Park, ca. 1940

22a. Top: Superintendent Richard B. Randolph and Major John Conklin, 1928
22b. Bottom: Park employees in 1938

23. Confederate veteran at seventy-fifth anniversary, 1936

24. Sixth Cavalry battle reenactment, 1938

25a. Top: Biplanes on Wilder Field, 1934
25b. Bottom: Tour guide service, early 1940s

26a. Top: President Roosevelt at Point Park, 1940
26b. Bottom: Haying at Poe Field, 1941

27a. Top: President Roosevelt at WAC Training Center, 1943
27b. Bottom: WAC Band in front of Administration Building, 1943

28a. Top: Visitors at Signal Mountain overlook, ca. 1960
28b.Bottom: Rededication of Florida State Monument, 1963

29. The Fuller Gun Collection

30a. Top: Brotherton House, 1955
30b. Bottom: Superintendent's residence

31a. Top: Cannon firing demonstration, Point Park, 1968
31b. Bottom: Cravens House, Lookout Mountain, 1971

32. Superintendent John O. Cook, 1962-1969

33a. Top: Unit of Excellence Award presentation, 1973
33b. Bottom: Participants in living history program, 1972

34a. Top: Recreation area at Wilder Field, 1972
34b.Bottom: Softball game, Chickamauga Battlefield, 1973

35a. Top: Bike-a-thon at Chickamauga Battlefield, 1971
35b. Bottom: Start of foot race, Chickamauga Park, 1973

36a. Top: Making sorghum at Snodgrass Farm, 1975
36b. Bottom: Symphony concert at Wilder Tower, 1976