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Lookout Mountain
Point Park
1110 East Brow Road, Lookout Mountain
Directions: From Downtown Chattanooga. I-24 to Exit 178 Lookout Mountain onto TN 58 towards Lookout Mountain. Turn right on W 25th St. Travel 0.3 miles and turn left on Broad Street. Bear right onto Cummings Hwy and turn left on TN 148 Scenic Highway. Follow signs to top of the mountain.
Point Park, established 1905, is the location of the headquarters of the 3,000-acre Lookout Mountain Battlefield. After he Confederate victory at Chickamauga, the U.S. army retreated to Chattanooga and Confederate troops occupied Lookout Mountain, where they could watch almost all Federal activities. Once Gen. U.S. Grant took command of all of the Federal armies at Chattanooga, he was determined to break the Confederate siege. The “Battle Above the Clouds” took place on November 24, 1863, when the Federal troops of Gen. Joseph Hooker drove the Southerners from the mountain. The following morning, the American flag flew from the mountainís pinnacle. After the war, the memorial Point Park commemorated that pivotal event in the battles for Chattanooga.
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