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EVENT OVERVIEW:
"The Independent Rifles host a Confederate and Citizen Living History weekend at the Cravens House on Lookout Mountain. The military will portray the 5th Texas Infantry of Longstreet’s Corp prior to them moving out on the Knoxville Campaign. Citizen participants should message Liz Landrum directly. Space will be extremely limited." Posted By Pat Landrum
POSTED BY MICHAEL CLARKE IN THE FACEBOOK GROUP:
“Longstreet's troops had recently been newly uniformed, consisting of a dark-blue round jacket, closely fitting, with light-blue trousers, which made a line of Confederates resemble that of the enemy, the only difference being the "cut" of the garments—the Federals wearing a loose blouse instead of a tight-fitting jacket. The uniforms of the Eastern troops made quite a contrast with the tattered and torn homemade jeans of their Western brethren.”
-Augustus Dickert, 3rd SC Infantry, September 1863
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POSTED BY ANDREW DONOVAN IN THE FACEBOOK GROUP
"On the morning of the 22nd (September), Hood's division marched in a direction that if pursued would have taken it to the Tennessee River some distance above Chattanooga. That night, it bivouacked in the woods, and resuming the march next morning, had not gone a mile when it filed squarely off to the left on a road leading toward Lookout Mountain, in the shadows of which, that afternoon, it found its position in the line of investment. There, about a mile and a half east of the north foot of Lookout Mountain, its camp just in rear of the first line of breastworks it ever built, the Texas Brigade lay idle and inactive, save for the picket duty its men did along Chattanooga Creek, until the afternoon of October 28th time hanging as heavily on its hands as the rations on which it subsisted did to its stomachs. It was not accustomed to an unvarying diet of corn meal and lean beef, the only rations issued, and to the muddy and tepid water that alone was accessible to its camp, and bowel complaints prevailed to an alarming extent. Even the privileges of scouting, so liberally extended in the Virginia army, was denied them." Polley, J.B., ' (New York, Neale Publishing Company, 1910), 214
"On the afternoon of the 30th, some alarm occurring, the Texas Brigade climbed up the side of Lookout and took position in line under the frowning cliff's by which the level land on its top is encircled. Why it went so high was a question much discussed by the boys. A Fifth Texas man said to one of the Fourth Texas; "It is Aunt Pollie (Robertson) that's done it. He has heard of the speed you fellows made night before last in that stampede down-hill, and he has got an idea from it that he wants to test. If the Yankees line up anywhere below us, he is going to order the brigade to charge them. He calculates, I reckon, that the force of gravity and the momentum we acquire will combine with our bravery to make the downset - it'll be no onset, you know - absolutely irresistible, and that we'll knock the Yankees, guns and all, into Lookout Creek, and there let the last one of 'em drown."
That night, we bivouacked in line on ground so steep and so loosely covered with small shingle and rock that only by bracing our feet against trees could we avoid rolling downhill. Indeed, many who were careless in lying down, or whose slumbers were restless because of the roughness of their couches, did roll until brought to a halt by some obstacle firmly fixed in the ground; and as such obstacles often proved to be the bodies of comrades, the air was occasionally sulphurous. The next day, we march around Lookout Point, and went into camp east of Lookout Mountain; for about this time General Bragg decided that it was time for him to do something" Ibid, 220-21
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EVENT OVERVIEW:
"The Independent Rifles host a Confederate and Citizen Living History weekend at the Cravens House on Lookout Mountain. The military will portray the 5th Texas Infantry of Longstreet’s Corp prior to them moving out on the Knoxville Campaign. Citizen participants should message Liz Landrum directly. Space will be extremely limited." Posted By Pat Landrum
POSTED BY MICHAEL CLARKE IN THE FACEBOOK GROUP:
“Longstreet's troops had recently been newly uniformed, consisting of a dark-blue round jacket, closely fitting, with light-blue trousers, which made a line of Confederates resemble that of the enemy, the only difference being the "cut" of the garments—the Federals wearing a loose blouse instead of a tight-fitting jacket. The uniforms of the Eastern troops made quite a contrast with the tattered and torn homemade jeans of their Western brethren.”
-Augustus Dickert, 3rd SC Infantry, September 1863
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT THE EVENT FACEBOOK GROUP BY CLICKING HERE
REGISTER HERE!
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POSTED BY ANDREW DONOVAN IN THE FACEBOOK GROUP
"On the morning of the 22nd (September), Hood's division marched in a direction that if pursued would have taken it to the Tennessee River some distance above Chattanooga. That night, it bivouacked in the woods, and resuming the march next morning, had not gone a mile when it filed squarely off to the left on a road leading toward Lookout Mountain, in the shadows of which, that afternoon, it found its position in the line of investment. There, about a mile and a half east of the north foot of Lookout Mountain, its camp just in rear of the first line of breastworks it ever built, the Texas Brigade lay idle and inactive, save for the picket duty its men did along Chattanooga Creek, until the afternoon of October 28th time hanging as heavily on its hands as the rations on which it subsisted did to its stomachs. It was not accustomed to an unvarying diet of corn meal and lean beef, the only rations issued, and to the muddy and tepid water that alone was accessible to its camp, and bowel complaints prevailed to an alarming extent. Even the privileges of scouting, so liberally extended in the Virginia army, was denied them." Polley, J.B., ' (New York, Neale Publishing Company, 1910), 214
"On the afternoon of the 30th, some alarm occurring, the Texas Brigade climbed up the side of Lookout and took position in line under the frowning cliff's by which the level land on its top is encircled. Why it went so high was a question much discussed by the boys. A Fifth Texas man said to one of the Fourth Texas; "It is Aunt Pollie (Robertson) that's done it. He has heard of the speed you fellows made night before last in that stampede down-hill, and he has got an idea from it that he wants to test. If the Yankees line up anywhere below us, he is going to order the brigade to charge them. He calculates, I reckon, that the force of gravity and the momentum we acquire will combine with our bravery to make the downset - it'll be no onset, you know - absolutely irresistible, and that we'll knock the Yankees, guns and all, into Lookout Creek, and there let the last one of 'em drown."
That night, we bivouacked in line on ground so steep and so loosely covered with small shingle and rock that only by bracing our feet against trees could we avoid rolling downhill. Indeed, many who were careless in lying down, or whose slumbers were restless because of the roughness of their couches, did roll until brought to a halt by some obstacle firmly fixed in the ground; and as such obstacles often proved to be the bodies of comrades, the air was occasionally sulphurous. The next day, we march around Lookout Point, and went into camp east of Lookout Mountain; for about this time General Bragg decided that it was time for him to do something" Ibid, 220-21
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