The Battle of Chattanooga
February 26th, 2009by Glynn Wilson
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| Glynn Wilson |
| Holiday Trav-L-Park of Chattanooga |
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 26 — The cardinals are singing their morning song as the sun tries to break through the clouds on this spot where the 84th Indiana Infantry camped in the fall of 1863 before the Battle of Chickamauga.
Chattanooga was a vital rail hub between Nashville and Atlanta in those days when telegraph lines were the new technology, and the town, located on the Tennessee River, served as an important manufacturing center for the production of iron and coke.
It served as the “Gateway to the Lower South” for the Union Army then, and by the time all the battles of Chattanooga were over, Abraham Lincoln’s forces under Gen. Ulysses S. Grant held undisputed control of the state of Tennessee. The city became the supply and logistics base for Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s 1864 “March to the Sea” through Atlanta that broke the spirit of the Confederacy and helped bring the Civil War to in an end.
Now the Holiday Trav-L-Park of Chattanooga serves as another encampment for another assault in the war to preserve American Democracy.
In just a little while, we will be heading over to Broad Street with a video camera to try and find out if it’s true that the key evidence against Bush administration officials in their perversion of democracy is still backed up on computer servers with the company that produced and stored Websites and e-mail accounts for the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and the Republican National committee.
