Highway 41, near Lookout Mountain (Chattanooga, TN)

The last StreetView look in my previous post showed Lookout Mountain ahead.  Because Highway 41 drives past Lookout Mountain, that's what we'll do, too.  There are both historic and scenic things to see on Lookout Mountain;  if you don't know your Civil War history real well, you may not know that the mountain was the site of the "Battle Above the Clouds", led on the Union side by Joseph Hooker. It was a key engagement in breaking the siege of Chattanooga that happened after the battle of Chickamauga (which Highway 41 passed by a few posts ago).  Fightin' Joe Hooker first got famous at Antietam, got defeated pretty badly at Chancellorsville when in command of the Army of the Potomac, but stayed with the troops to finish the job.


By the John C. Wilson Memorial Park. This is part of the Lookout Mountain Conservancy (https://lookoutmountainconservancy.org/). I tried to figure out who John C. Wilson is/was, but I was not successful.




The Camp Ross Historical Site and Placard is on one side, the Tennessee River is on the other side, and famous Ruby Falls is just about straight up from here. Camp Ross Historical Marker (https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=4495)




Crossing Lookout Creek



I feel like some southern-fried catfish. How about you?