VOLUME XX               OCTOBER 21, 2003                NO. 10

O C T O B E R    R O U N D    T A B L E    M E E T I N G

  VISITORS & GUESTS WELCOME

  * * * Note Special Meeting Place at McCallie * * * 

DATE:   TUESDAY,  OCTOBER 21, 2003             TIME:  7:00 PM

TOPIC:  "THE OTHER PART OF WAUHATCHIE: THE FIGHT
        AT SMITH'S & TYNDALE'S HILLS"

SPEAKER:  MR. ANSLEY MOSES, JR., VICE PRESIDENT, 
          CHATTANOOGA CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE

PLACE:  LOCKETT LODGE, ACADEMIC QUADRANGLE
        THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL, HISTORIC MISSIONARY RIDGE
(Directions to Lockett Lodge - Enter the McCallie School campus off of 
Dodds Avenue opposite the end of Bailey Avenue.  Take the main drive 
into the campus and follow the signs going up the Ridge for the Academic 
Quadrangle. There is a parking area for the Academic Quadrangle beside 
the Chapel. Park there as normal for a meeting in the Millis-Evans Room 
of Caldwell Hall. From the parking lot, walk back toward Caldwell Hall 
and up hill to the left of the upper level entrance of Caldwell Hall. 
Go past Caldwell Hall and past the Hunter Arts Center (where we've met 
sometimes in the past). Lockett Hall is the next building on the right, 
a smaller brick building just off the sidewalk. We'll try to have some 
signs out and I'll see about posting some guides.)
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OCTOBER MEETING

     "It was point-blank business," said Lieutenant Albert R. Greene, 
a staff officer to 12th Corps brigade commander Brigadier General
George S. Greene, of the fighting between John White Geary's "White Star" 
Division near Wauhatchie Junction in the pre-dawn hours of October 29, 1863. 
That attack by John Bratton's South Carolina Brigade against Geary's small 
division is what is typically discussed as the "Battle of Wauhatchie." But, 
there was more to that final battle that opened the "Cracker Line" into 
Chattanooga at the end of five weeks of siege at Chattanooga. The other half 
of the battle took place more than a mile to the north, closer to Brown's 
Ferry and the roads over Lookout Mountain. In fact, it is this other action 
that in the end decided the outcome of Geary's fight in front of Wauhatchie. 
This action, on the southern hills of the ridge line along the west bank of 
the Tennessee River's Moccasin Bend, saw 11th Corps Federals of 
Orlando Smith's and Hector Tyndale's brigades driving some of Longstreet's 
Confederates off to the east, success here ensured victory at Wauhatchie 
and the opening of the "Cracker Line." But at a cost. Surgeon Robert Hubbard 
wrote of the cost to Smith's Brigade:

       Dearly they purchased a victory, for the 33rd [Massachusetts] 
       lost out of 238 the fearful number of 101 and the 73rd [Ohio] 
       about 50...I have never seen in proportion to number injured, 
       men so severely wounded. Many will die...The severity of their 
       wounds is owing to the short range at which the fire was received 
       as is the case in most night attacks.

Come out and learn about a significant part of a little understood battle.
Ansley Moses, Jr. is a long time member of the Round Table and has been Vice 
President in recent years. He is a McCallie graduate who then went on to
Davidson College in North Carolina where he received a degree in economics. 
Afterwards, at Duke University, he continued his education and received a 
masters in economics and also a law degree. He has served as a clerk for 
U. S. District Court Judge Jack T. Camp in Atlanta and is now an attorney
practicing with Miller & Martin here in Chattanooga. Ansley notes, as perhaps
many others of us do, that his career, in his case his legal career, is "just 
a way to finance my lifelong interest in and study of the Civil War."
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SPEAKER'S FUND SUPPORT OF THE MONTH
      There are three awards again this month in support of the Speaker's 
Fund. The first is a copy of a published diary of one of the soldier's 
engaged in the action that is the subject of our talk this month, 
John T. McMahon's Diary of the 136th New York, 1861-1864. The second 
item is a copy of James Lee McDonough's Chattanooga - A Death Grip on the 
Confederacy, one of the important book-length studies of the Battles 
for Chattanooga.  The third item is four of the six issues for 1999 of the 
magazine Blue & Gray. Articles include the Battle of New Market, one 
on William H. Lytle, and George McClellan in the six weeks after Antietam. 
The second two of the items were donated to the Speaker's Fund by Round Table 
members and to them go our thanks. Proceeds from the Speaker's Fund go to 
help pay the travel expenses of our out-of-town speakers. Your generous 
support of the Speaker's Fund helps us bring in good folks from greater 
distances.
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140th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLES FOR CHATTANOOGA
      Events at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park to
commemorate the 140th Anniversary of the Battles for Chattanooga have 
begun and will continue through November 29.  A schedule of those programs is 
enclosed. More details may be had by calling the Lookout Mountain Battlefield 
Visitor Center at (423) 821-7786 or by checking the online version of the 
schedule at the Military Park's website, www.nps.gov/chch. Several 
interesting programs are planned, so come out and take some of them in.
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DUES AND OFFICERS
      Round Table Dues Year 2003-2004 begins this month. Over the next 
couple of months, either at the meetings or through the mail, please pay 
your dues for the coming year. I'll start purging the rolls of those who
have not paid by the first of the year.

      Also, it's that time of year again when it is time to nominate
officers for the coming year. At this month's meeting, we'll nominate 
the slate for 2004.
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11th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE 19th CENTURY PRESS, THE CIVIL WAR, 
AND FREE EXPRESSION
      By now, everyone should have received a copy of the schedule for this
symposium in the mail. There appear to be some interesting directly related 
Civil War papers being presented this year. Again this year, the symposium is
being held at the Read House as construction continues on the UTC campus. The
session Thursday evening at 8 PM, "Are the Public Images of the Civil War Based 
on Fiction or History?," might be particularly interesting given the fact that 
the movie version of Cold Mountain will be released in December. Friday 
evening's talk by Paul Ashdown, a former speaker to the Round Table, "What Can
We Say of Such a Hero? Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Press," might be real 
interesting too. You might consider coming out for the symposium. There will 
be additional copies of the program at the October meeting.
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TRANSPORTATION PLAN AT CHICKAMAUGA BATTLEFIELD
       The consultant hired by the Georgia Department of Transportation for 
the study of Transportation issues around the Chickamauga Battlefield is still
accepting public comment. At the Study's website: 
www.dot.state.ga.us/dot/plan-prog/planning/studies/index.shtml.
Click on the Chickamauga Study in that list. There is a survey listed under 
"What's New." I would encourage you all to consider filling it out and 
providing the consultant your thoughts about protecting the Chickamauga 
Battlefield. If you don't have access to the Internet, I'll bring copies 
of the survey to the meeting.
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FUTURE ROUND TABLE MEETINGS
November 18, 2003 - Battles for Chattanooga History Fair - Lawrence 
Alexander, Preston Brown, Charles Harris, Anthony Hodges, and others -- 
A Potpourri of Battles of Chattanooga Stories and Artifacts; SPECIAL LOCATION 
- Chattanooga Regional History Museum, 400 Chestnut Street; details next 
month.
December 16, 2003 - Dr. John D. Fowler, Kennesaw State University, 
"Mountaineers in Gray on Missionary Ridge: East Tennessee's 19th 
Tennessee Fights On Its Home Soil."
January 20, 2004 -
February 17, 2004 - Mel Young, "Dr. Block: Union Surgeon to Chattanooga 
Businessman"
July 20, 2004 - "The Battle of LaFayette," Field Trip and Off-site 
Meeting, Walker County Historical Society's Marsh-Warthen House, LaFayette, 
Georgia; we'll arrange a car-pool convoy for this special trip to learn about 
one of the smaller local battles from 140 years ago; more details later.
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UP-COMING LOCAL CIVIL WAR EVENTS OF NOTE
October 30-November 1, 2003 - "11th Annual Symposium on the
19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression" sponsored
by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Department of Communications,
see above for more details.
November 22, 2003 - Civil War Tribute, Battles for Chattanooga 140th
Anniversary, Musical performances, Robert Trentham, "In Thinking of America: 
Songs of the Civil War," and Saxton's Cornet Band, UTC Patten Fine Arts 
Center, 7:30 PM, $18.00, for more information call 425-4269 or visit 
www.utc.edu/finearts.
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January 16, 2004 - Georgia Historical Society Roundtable Discussion "Why
Are We Still Fighting the Civil War," Dr. David Goldfield, UNC-Charlotte, Dr. 
James I. "Bud" Robertson, Virginia Tech, John Shelton Reed, UNC-Chapel Hill, 
Georgia Public Broadcasting Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia 8 PM; we'll see 
about getting a group up for anyone interested in going.
February 7-8, 2004 - 9th Annual Great Chickamauga Southern
National Civil War Show and Sale, Northwest Georgia Trade & Convention Center,
I-75 Exit 333/Walnut Avenue, Dalton, Georgia, 9-5 Sat., 9-3 Sun.; more details
later.
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March 6, 2004 - The 1864 Atlanta Campaign: An Historical Symposium,
sponsored by the Friends of Civil War Paulding County, Georgia, Inc., 
Chattahoochee Technical College Auditorium, Dallas, Georgia, speakers include
Dr. Keith Bohannon, Dr. J. D. Fowler, Jim Miles, and John Cissell; for more
information, 770-443-1459.