posted August 23, 2008
CIVIL WAR HISTORY BUS TOUR
The Chattanooga History Center will offer a bus tour, “Marching and Countermarching: With the Confederate Army, September 9-19, 1863” on Saturday, September 13, 2008.
The day-long tour will depart from the History Center, 615 Lindsay Street, Suite 100, at 9:30am, and will return at about 4:00pm. The fee is $40 per person, and the registration deadline is September 8th. The tour guide will be the History Center’s Curator, Dr. Daryl Black. Participants should bring their own sack lunches.
On September 9, 1863, the last soldiers of Braxton Bragg’s Confederate Army of Tennessee abandoned Chattanooga. Threatened by Union forces on three fronts, Bragg moved his army southward to meet the bold advance. Within days, the two forces would meet along the banks of Chickamauga Creek. This day-long bus tour will follow the retreating Confederate army as it moved across northwest Georgia in search of the Union army, trace the route of James Longstreet’s reinforcing column from the Army of Northern Virginia, visit the site of the Confederate’s abortive counterattack in McLemore’s Cove and around Lee and Gordon’s Mill, explore the places where the rebel forces crossed Chickamauga Creek in their last attempt to seize the Lafayette Road and block the Union army’s escape, and finally visit the places where the armies locked in combat September 19, 1863.
NEW WOMEN OF THE NEW SOUTH LECTURE
The Chattanooga History Center present a lecture, New Women of the New South, by Dr. Paul E. Fuller at 7:00pm on Tuesday, September 9th, at the History Center, 615 Lindsay Street, Suite 100. The program is free to the public, but pre-registration is required.
In July of 1848 over 300 men and women gathered in Seneca Falls, New York, for the first conference on women’s rights to be held in the United States. That meeting, organized and documented by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who would later join forces with Susan B. Anthony, was the formal beginning of a struggle for women’s rights which would reach well into the twentieth century just to achieve voting rights.
At Seneca Falls, Stanton introduced the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments,” which addressed co-guardianship of minor children, married women’s property rights, and other issues, as well as suffrage.
The founders of the movement were also abolitionists, an insurmountable obstacle to its acceptance in the south until after the Civil War ended in 1865. Dr. Fuller will address gender, race and politics in the struggle for women’s rights in the south.
Dr. Paul E. Fuller is Professor Emeritus at Kentucky’s Transylvania University, and has published many articles and papers on the women’s rights movement and individuals who participated in it. He is the author of the book, Laura Clay and the Women’s Rights Movement. Dr. Fuller is a native of Chattanooga.
For more information, or to register, call 423-265-3247.
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