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The peak of victory — the morning after the battle Pulpit Rock, the summit of Lookout Mountain. Before dawn of November 25th, Hooker, anticipating the withdrawal of the Confederates, sent detachments to seize the very summit of the Mountain, here 2,400 feet high. Six volunteers from the Eighth Kentucky regiment scaled the palisades by means of the ladders seen in this picture, and made their way to the top. The rest of the regiment quickly followed; then came the Ninety-sixth Illinois. The rays of the rising sun disclosed the Stars and Stripes floating in triumph from the lofty peak “amid the wild and prolonged cheers of the men whose dauntless valor had borne them to that point.”

Review of Reviews. New York. 1912.

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Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ed.

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Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ed.