Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-03-05
THE NORTHWEST
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN.
Interesting Letter from q. Former
Henry County Man.

your many readers WOuld ike 10 near
a few words from the South in regard
to a trip to Chattanooga's National
Cemetery and far-famed Lookout
Mountain.
Our first objective point was CImer-
on Hill, around whose western border
an easy and pleasant road winds.
From the summit is the best and most
imposing view of Lookout Mountain. /.
Passing over the rugged valley along
the rocky bluff of Walden's Ridge, the.
base of Missionary Ridge is reached
The great iron bridge of the Cincinnati
and Southern r. r. can be seen
while descending to the city. We pas
sed the handsome Jail and courthouse,
erected at a cost of $50, 900. to the Con-
federate Cemetery, where thousands OF
the boys in gray sleeep beneath the
weeping willows. A monument with
a shaft 30 feet in height bears the SIM
pie inscription, "Our Confederate
Dead". AS we pass along we come to
the entrance of the National Cemetery.
The entrance is on the south side COM
posed of a magnificent gateway, built
of Alabama lime stone, with an arch
way 81 feet in height, within which,
swings the massive iron gate. In the
outer entablature is the inscription,
National Military Cemetery, Chatta-
nooga, A. D. 1857; inscribed upon
the inner entablature is the following:
"Here rest in peace 1885. citizens who
died for their country in the years 1851
and 1867. The cemetery is nearly
circular in shape; is about one mile in
circumference and contains abobt rs a.
cres. 1t is surrounded by a well kept
wall that is almost hidden by closely
clipped Usage hedge. In the center is
knoll rising 100 feet above the gravel
road; on the we'll kept blue grass sides
of this are nineteen special interlnent
sections, each one designated by
small granite obelisk, and lettered from
A to s; surrounding these are small
white marble head stones. To the
top of the mountain and to the
right from the gateway is section H,
where, in semi-circle lie the remains
of Samuel SIavins, s. Robinson, g. d.
Wilson, Marion Ross, VIM. Campbell,
P. G. Shadrach, and John Scott-all
Ohio soldiers, whose daring capture of
the lomocotive on the Western and At
lantic R. r. in 1862, cost them their
lives. They were hanged in Atlanta.
Passing on, little later the summit
of the knoll is reached. Here is the
flag staff $50 feet high, from which
floats the ensign of the Union.
We pass from the cemetery to the
Lookout Incline r. R.; here we ascend
to the top of the mountain and land at
Point Lookout hotel. The hotel is two
thousand feet above the level of the sea
and seventeen hundred feet above the
city of Chattanooga. It is modern
structure of three stories and basement
with two large balconies fourteen
feet in width surrounding the building
on every floor. The lower is for the
free use of every one while the others
are reserved for the guests of the hotel.
The views from the hotels broad bal
comics are the most extensive in the
world, extending over an area of 500
miles, and including the seven states:
Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, North
and South Carolina, Virginia and Ken
lucky. Here is the ground ON which
Gen. Hooker fought the famous. battle
above the clouds; a little beyond the
beautiful Tennessee flows around the
renowned Moccasin Bend, Generals
Hooker, Grant and Bragg's headquar-
ters. The battle-felds of Missionary
Ridge, Chicamaugua, Cameron Hill,
Browns Ferry, Sherman Hill, Bald
Knob, Fort Wood, RossvilIe Gap, Fort
Negley, the National Cemetery, Stone
Fort and the city of Chattanooga, are
all in sight.
We pass on to Sunset Park. This is
the beauty spot of Lookout Mountain.
Sunset Rock is 300 feet high from
which nature reveals herself to man in
fiery bushes. These wonderful sunsets
are the despair of artists. A few steps
beyond Sunset Park on the right is the
"Garden of Gods", containing natural
and whose counterpart can
not be found. Next we come to the
Eight Wonders of the World" which
is one one of the most peculiar forma-
tions in the world. Gazing down
from the precipice the visitor is appall-
ed. Within three feet is an immense
rock spanning the awful declivity form
ing natural bridge. Viewing the
wonder from the right, and looking
down the terrible chasm, one can un-
derstand why this is called the "Devils
as, with the blue above
and the perfect formation on the rug
ged sides of the mountain beneath,
the name is singularly suggestive.
We soon come to the old Confederate
l