(Directions to Caldwell Hall-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 for the Academic Quadrangle. There is a parking area there beside the Chapel and you will have passed Caldwell Hall on the right as you approach the parking area. Find a place and park. Caldwell Hall will be behind you as you park. Come in either the first or second floor doors and follow the signs to the Millis-Evans Room.)

But, the battlefield preservation effort that TPL has entered into that has seemingly generated the greatest interest is their undertaking to save the undeveloped portion of Billy Goat Hill, that separate and detached hill at the north end of Missionary Ridge that 'Cump Sherman' belatedly and mistakenly attacked on November 24, 1863. Some in the Round Table will remember the nearly successful mid-'80s effort involving the Round Table, the Boy Scounts, and others to save Billy Goat Hill. On the top of one of the two crests of that double crested hill mass survives a line of rifle pits and artillery emplacements constructed by Sherman's men. It was from Billy Goat that the first of Sherman's attacks on the 25th were launched against the real Confederate position on the next ridge crest to the south, Tunnel Hill. The view from Billy Goat offers a unique vantage point to understand the geography on the northern end of the ridge and the perspective of some of the Union soldiers in that portion of the Battle of Missionary Ridge. When talking about Sherman vs. Cleburne at Tunnel Hill (the Sherman, or what many folks say should be the Cleburne, Reservation {evidence that to the victors do go the spoils of writing the history... ...or at least naming the battlefield parks......]), most folks want to know what Billy Goat Hill is, where it is, how it fits, and doesn't fit, into the battle picture, is something being done to save it? Well, thanks to the Trust for Public Land our ability to answer those questions is improving. Come out and hear this evening from TPL staffer Rick Wood (or even his boss Bobby Davenport) about their SUCCESSFUL and continuing efforts at Civil War Battlefielde Preservation in the Chattanooga Area) and......don't hesitate to ask them about their efforts that will probably allow for the interpretation of the Giles Smith vs. Wright's Brigade firefight across South Chickamauga Creek and of one of the parts of the November, 1861, Bridge Burners Affair, and of an acquisition that one day will probably allow for access for interpretation of the seizure of Brown's Ferry and ... ... ... ...). It's right before Christmas, but there's some good War Between the States to get in yet this year. See you the evening of the 20th.

[Webmaster's Note: the website for The Trust for Public Land is: www.tpl.org. A very good write-up for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga area is titled "Green Space and Glory" and is located at: www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=20272&folder_id=3188 dated 12/2005.]

There are four items again this month for the Speaker's Fund. The first is a copy of James I. "Bud" Robertson's Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend. The second item is a copy of Volume 1 of the wonderful The Image of War: 1861-1865 set; Volume 1 being Shadows of the Storm and includes more than 650 photographs. The third item is a CD with a computer screen saver of 125 images from Civil War battlefield sites. The fourth item is a grouping of three magazines, two issues of the modern Confederate Veteran, both from 1988, and one issue of North & South from December, 2002. Articles in the issues cover such subjects as Honey Springs, and Confederate home guards. All four items this month were donated to the Round Table to support the Speaker's Fund. To those donors go our thanks. Proceeds from the Speaker's Fund go toward bringing speakers in from outside the area. Your support of the Speaker's Fund is appreciated.

Janary 17, 2006 - To be announced
April 18, 2006 - Morris Penny, "Grant's Deceptions To Vicksburg"
May 16, 2006 - Rebecca Karcher, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, "New Jersey in the Atlanta Campaign"

November 9-11, 2006--14th 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; more details later.

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