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- CNC_061009_030.JPG: Candy Flats: "'Tis much he dares, and to that dauntless temper of his mind he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety."
During the Battle of Lookout Mountain in November, 1863, 3,000 Union troops were moving in a line that extended to the base of the bluffs you see above toward Point Rock. Near the Peace Monument, a granite shaft which towers on the summer, General Geary was in command. In this area, about a mile from where his troops crossed Lookout Creek, numbers of Confederate pickets were observed. General Geary judged it would be unwise to leave them behind to attack his troops advancing along the slope in the rear.
Col. Charles Candy of the 66th Ohio was ordered to the "flats" as the reports read, "to scour the fields." His troops did so. Along the banks of Lookout Creek, several hundred pickets were captured.
Col. Candy and his troops then returned to aid in the fighting on the slope. Later in the day, he fell among the rocks and was severely wounded.
His command spent the night in the gloom and rain and cold at the base of the bluffs on the eastern side of the mountain. To avoid observation, they were without fires. The fighting continued at intervals until 3am when the Confederates retreated.
- CNC_061009_037.JPG: These are the "flats" where the Confederate pickets were
- CNC_061009_040.JPG: Point Rock is up there. The fancy house is in the middle but look to the left and you can see the Peace Monument.
- CNC_061009_043.JPG: Point Rock: "There is a cliff whose high and bending head looks fearfully in the confined deep."
This great and familiar rock is 1200 feet above you in Point Rock near the marble Peace Monument shaft which you see above the trees.
Dragging Canoe (Tsi-Yu'Unsini [?]), chief of the Chickamaugas, a warlike tribe of Cherokee Indians, may well have used Point Rock as a lookout. History tells us that late in the afternoon of August, 1788, after over 100 miles on horseback, Gen. Joseph Martin with 500 pioneers on an expedition to punish the Chickamauga galloped into their hastily abandoned town east of Lookout.
After preparing to camp, some of the bolder pioneers, warned by the experienced, went up a trail across the north end of Lookout hunting Indians. They found them only when gun (galogwa) fire poured upon them from Indians behind big rocks. One was shot from his horse but rescued as the pioneers retreated. The Indians fired guns all night and drum beating warned that they were gathering to defend themselves.
Next morning, a detail went to examine the pass where the Indians were the day before, and were fired upon. Martin, hearing the guns, galloped a half mile to help. His men dismounted to lead the horses over the rocks.
Among the big rocks about a mile northeast of here, bullets showered upon them when the shoot was over, three men were dead.
- CNC_061009_061.JPG: Cherokee Eye -- Indian Legend:
In the old days, a great Indian chief lay dying in Lookout Valley. He was the ,last member of a once powerful tribe. The old chief regretted that there was no one to mourn for him after his death, that no one would ever know that he had lived. He prayed to his gods for a token, a sign that he and his tribe should not perish utterly, but in some way be remembered in days to come.
As he prayed, a great storm swept up the valley, shaking the mountain and throwing down huge rocks. The next day, the dying chief looked up and saw on the side of the mountain his own likeness carved from rock. He died content, knowing that he would not be forgotten as long as his image looked out over the valley.
When the Cherokees came to this section in later times, it was said that they often brought food to the base of this stone profile and in time came to call it do-da nun-yu, or "Father Rock," even those the old chief had not been a Cherokee.
With the passing of the Indian, no notice was taken of the rock image by the white man. It was called Sunset Rock and the great chief was forgotten in spite of all his gods had done for him. It was not until a few years ago that the rock was again noticed for what it was -- a great Indian Profile. Once again there is some one to look upon the image of the old chief and mourn for him.
- CNC_061009_071.JPG: Indian chief profile, also known as Sunset Rock
- CNC_061009_101.JPG: Wash Basin
- CNC_061009_104.JPG: Wash Basin: circa 1800
Originally located at Kelly's Ford on the stage coach route from Nashville to Chattanooga. The basin was by a spring and was used to refresh travellers. The limestone basin was hand hewed by a half breed named Plemons.
- Description of Subject Matter: The Chattanooga Nature Center is a fairly small center located at the base of Lookout Mountain. It has a variety of caged animals. It also administers access to the Reflecting Riding Arboretum and Botanical Garden. This is a three-mile driving loop which takes you around pastoral settings, woodland gardens, wildflower meadows, reflection ponds, and picnic tables. The name is supposed to indicate how the scenery changes as the winds blow -- it's supposed to be an active, changing landscape.
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