Coolidge Park, Chattanooga, Tennessee. That's the carousel on the left, Market Street Bridge in the center with Lookout Mountain in the backgroud.

We were bass fishing just above Sullivan's Landing one day when this pretty girl sailed by.

This may be the most photographed cannon in existance! I couldn't help but snap a version of my own.

Shot this one of the Western Indenpendent Greys during a reenactment Sept 20, 2007

This photo provides a somewhat better idea of the wooded terrain at Chickamauga. The sweeping, open fields are more photogenic, but most of the park is thickly wooded. John Starkweather's brigade was caught misaligned at this site on day 1 of the Battle of Chickamauga and were taken in flank by Govan's brigade of Liddell's division, routed, and scattered.

This is typical of the cannon ball pyramid monuments placed at Chickamauga to mark the site where a brigade commander was killed (No divisional or corp commanders were killed there). Ben Helm commanded the "Orphan Brigade" of Confederate Kentucky infantry and was Abe Lincoln's brother in law. (My GG and GGG granfathers walked over this very ground about 1 hour later with their S.C regiment to assault the same position that Helm's Kentuckians failed to carry. Thier luck was no better.) It's been said that the loss of his brother in law here affected Lincoln severely. Helm's widow (Mary Lincoln's sister) and daughter traveled to Washington and stayed with the Lincolns for some time afterward. The wreath is from the B.H. Helm Camp, Sons of Conferdate Veterans.

This tunnel dates from 1849. Built by the Western and Atlantic Railroad, it was the scene of a fairly involved skirmish in 1864. The hijacked engine The General passed through this tunnel on its run north. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Hill,_Georgia.

Uhhhh, yeah... I meant "secluded". This is a nice stretch of road far from the most traveled parts of Chickamauga Park. This section has been closed to vehicular traffic for years and requires about a 15 minute hike from the car. No actual fighting went on in this area, though it would have seen some shells lobbed through. It's just adjacent to a ford in Chickmauga Creek. This road would have seen a goodly share of Confederate troops as they made their way from crossing to battlefield.

This is from the crest of Rocky Face Ridge looking northwest toward Tunnel Hill, Georgia. That's Blue Mountain in the near distance, and the small community of Rocky Face along US 41 is visible just below. At the outset of the Atlanta Campaign Confederate troops would have watched Sherman's columns approaching from Tunnel Hill from this vantage point.

George Disney of the 4th Kentucky was killed on Rocky Face Ridge Feburary 25, 1864 and buried where he fell. For decades only a hard carved wood marker marked the site. Then a group of boy scouts came upon the grave in 1912 and took it providing a proper stone as a troop project. On the trail to the top of the mountain tons of confederate rifle pits and other entrenchments can be seen. Very nice site!