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this steep mountain side charged the Northern hosts, and here was fought ‘The Battle Above the Clouds.’
The eye ranges over Waldron's Ridge and Missionary Ridge, rendered historic by bloody and desperate battles.
Twenty-seven years ago the soldiers of General Bragg, ranged along the crest of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, held the Northern army closely invested within the military and fortified camp of Chattanooga, and sustaining upon their bayonets the fortunes of the Southern Confederacy in the West, they resisted the southward flow of the red tide of war, and for a time protected the mountains, hills and valleys of Georgia from the devastating march of Northern hostile armies.
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