THE CIVIL WAR BATTLES
of
CHICKAMAUGA
and
CHATTANOOGA
The Front Cover:
The New York Central Memorial, or Peace Monument, Point Park, Lookout
Mountain, Tennessee. This is the largest and most imposing monumental
structure in the park. The height is 95 feet. The base is 50 feet in
diameter. The platform is reached by 7 steps which are made of Tennessee
marble. There is a colonnade 3 steps above the platform. In the center
of the colonnade is a pedestal on which rests the tall circular shaft.
The shaft is surmounted by bronze figures of a Union and Confederate
soldier with “Old Glory” towering above them. “Their hands once raised
in strife, now clasping a brother’s hand.” These bronze figures are 8′
9″ high and were designed by R. Hinton Perry of New York, to whom the
idea was suggested by General Daniel E. Sickles. The pink granite in
this monument came from Milford, Mass. The contractor for the granite
work was G. H. Cutting Granite Co., of Worcester, Mass. The plans and
specifications for the monument were prepared by A. J. Zabriskie,
Engineer and Secretary of the New York Monument Commission. This
monument was erected in 1907 at a cost of approximately $80,000.00. It
was dedicated on November 15, 1910, with impressive ceremonies, the
dedication alone costing $21,138.58. In his address on that occasion
General Sickles said of this monument:
“I take a great deal of pride in that monument. It was designed by my
colleagues and myself and my secretary, A. J. Zabriskie. I myself
designed a great deal of the statuary which surmounts it. It represents
conciliation; and that was my thought—my thought of a Northern and
Southern soldier standing under one flag, which they both hold as they
embrace each other. That is the spirit in which we have done our
monumental work in Chattanooga, in placing there an enduring monument to
reconciliation and peace. New York holds out her hand to Tennessee. New
York embraces Tennessee and all her sister states in the South. New York
offers to all of them good fellowship, good will and reconciliation now
and forever.”
Copyright 1942
By J. L. ROGERS
3203 Dayton Blvd.
Chattanooga, Tenn.