Event
Garrity's Alabama Battery on Lookout Mountain (Artillery Demonstrations)
Fee:
Entrance to Point Park is $10 per adult (ages 16 years and older; ages 15 years and younger enter free of charge). If a visitor has an America the Beautiful National Parks & Federal Recreational Lands Pass, the passholder and three other adults may enter for free.Dates & Times
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Type of Event
Each firing demonstration lasts 30 minutes.
Description
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will conduct artillery firing demonstrations at Point Park, part of the Lookout Mountain Battlefield.
The soldiers of Captain James Garrity’s Alabama Battery spent two lonely months perched atop Lookout Mountain during the Siege of Chattanooga, firing periodically on Federal batteries and wagon trains. Confederate artillery on Lookout Mountain prevented the Union army from using its main supply route into Chattanooga, creating a desperate situation for the Federal troops besieged in the city.
Join us to learn more about the experiences of these Confederate cannoneers during the Siege of Chattanooga and to experience the thunder of artillery fire from the heights of Lookout Mountain.
Reservation or Registration: No
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