Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) CHATTANOOGA OR Lookout Mountain AND Missionary Ridge From MOCCASIN POINT BY BRADFORD R. WOOD, JR., Brevet Captain, late U.S.A., Brevet Major U.S.V. Albany, N.Y. A paper read at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, held at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., September 10, 1907. MAJOR WOOD, when introduced, said:-- I wish to describe to the comrades present a great battle which resulted in a victory for the Union, and to introduce you to some of our Western soldiers. If I can give you one or two new facts, or increase your love for the West or for all of our great and glorious country, I shall be well pleased. My story is not all original, but what is not I have taken from official and reliable records, so that I can say that it is all true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Published November, 1907 By The U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AND MISSIONARY RIDGE FROM MOCCASIN POINT In the fall of the year 1863, during the Civil War, while serving in the signal corps attached to the fourth corps of the army of the Cumberland, it was my privilege to have a good station on Moccasin Point, opposite Lookout Mountain, on the north side of the Tennessee river, from which to witness the assault of the Union troops under Gen. Hooker up the north face of the mountain, and also the charge of the army of the Cumberland under Gen. Thomas up the western slope of Missionary Ridge.