Cobham's Brigade Tablet - Chickamauga National Battlefield
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This plaque indicates position of Cobham's Brigade during the battle. This plaque is located on S. Crest Road, Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, TN.
Waymark Code: WMPHG1
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/02/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member QuesterMark
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This plaque indicates the position of Cobham's Brigade during the assault on Missionary Ridge during the Battle of Missionary Ridge, fought November 25, 1863. This Battle was part of the Chattanooga Campaign and is preserved and maintained as part of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. The brigade was commanded by Col. George A. Cogham, Jr. This plaque is located on S. Crest Road, Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, TN.




Cobham's Brigade Tablet


Text:
Cobham's Brigade
Geary's Division - Slocum's Corps.
Col. George A. Cogham, Jr.
Nov. 25, 1863, 5 P.M.

29th Pennsylvania Col. W. Rickards, Jr.
109th Pennsylvania Capt. F. L. Gimber.
111th Pennsylvania Col. Thomas M. Walker.
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This brigade, 109th Pennsylvania being left as camp guard west of Lookout, descended Lookout Mountain at 11 A.M. It reached Rossville about 4 P.M. and thence followed Creighton's brigade along the western base of Missionary Ridge, Knap's Pennsylvania battery shelling the crest during the advance. The line advanced in the plain abreast of Cruft's division on the crest, that command having carried the south point of the ridge overlooking Rossville Gap, and moved thence, northward, along the summit.




From the NRHP nomination form:



  Structure Number: HS-Batch-3.
  LCS ID: 091615




Historical Significance:

  National Register Status:
Entered - Documented
  National Register Date:
10/26/1998

  National Historic Landmark?: No
  Significance Level:
Contributing
 

Short Significance Description:

The metal markers and tablets contribute to the national significance of the park under NR criterion A as part of the War Department's efforts to mark and commemorate places of significant action during the battles.

Short Physical Description

Approximately 700 metal position and descriptive markers with raised lettering. Union marker text painted blue; Confederate marker text painted red.


Long Physical Description

Most of these tablets and plaques have integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmenship, feeling, and association to the historically significant period of Commemorative/Park Developement (1895-1899).


Material(s)   
 
Structural Component(s)
Material(s)

1. 
Superstructure
Iron
2. 
Superstructure
Bronze



Construction Period:
Historic
Chronology:   
 
Physical Event
Begin Year
Begin Year AD/BC
End Year
End Year AD/BC
Designer
Designer Occupation
1. 
Built
1890
CE
 
 
War Department
 




Chickamauga National Battlefield






My Sources
1. NPS List
2. Wikipedia - Battle of Missionary Ridge
3. The Civil War Home - The Chattanooga Campaign Union Order of Battle
4. CWBFM - Cobham's Brigade Tablet

Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1890

Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: War Department

Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union

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