Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: AVRS

Credit:

by Linn (Royal M.)
Date:

1863
Equipment:

flag; ladder
Locations & Lines:

Lookout Mountain TN; Signal Rock (Lookout Mountain TN); Tennessee
Military Units:

8th Kentucky Infantry; Army of the Cumberland; US Army
Persons:

Wilson (John)
Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Union troops climbing Roper’s Rock on their way to the summit of Lookout Mountain. [Photograph shows soldiers led by Captain John Wilson reenacting climb to plant 8th Kentucky Infantry Regiment battle flag on the summit of Lookout Mountain (Source: Will Stapp, January 2016)]

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