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Geary’s White Stars Sweep the Cravens Plateau
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Location: Cravens House on the Lookout Mountain Battlefield
For over two miles they had struggled around boulders and through draws and ravines on the wet, forested western slope of Lookout Mountain. Now as they neared the northern point of the mountain, they struck the main Confederate defenses. In this two-hour, two mile round trip walking tour, National Military Park Historian Jim Ogden will examine what became the climax of the Battle of Lookout Mountain as the men of John White Geary’s Second Division of the Twelfth Corps swept across Robert Craven’s “Alta Vista” farm, securing the northern tip of Lookout Mountain for the Union cause. Comfortable, supportive, outdoor footwear and clothing appropriate for the weather are strongly recommended for this down hill and up walk on limitedly maintained trails freshly carpeted in another fall’s leaf fall.
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