The Vade-Mecum: Unique, Compact, Reliable Guide to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park: A Handy Ready Reference: Not for a Day, but for All Time (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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A guide is supposed to direct one where to go and how to go. In every particular this is a Guide to the Chickamanga and Chattanooga National Military Park; unique, compact, trustworthy: not burdened with glittering generalities and irrelevant information, but every line carefully gleaned from authentic sources by a competent compiler who has, time after time, traveled every mile of this broad domain and studied it for years.

Brevity is its distinguishing feature. Relative events, tersely narrated, are carried in parallels for ready comparison. Objects of interest, right or left en route, are noted in right or left columns. Details of battles, and results, are not given; their history is written, and the Guide merely offers, in a practical manner, to take visitors over these fields where history was made. Maps and illustrations are not used because, like programs of particular occasions, they can always be had from those who make such publications their specialties; this is a common-sense book of reference, for all time. Nothing important has been overlooked if possible to obtain satisfactory data. Occurrences are taken in their natural order - campaign of the Union army for Chattanooga; evacuation of Chattanooga by Confederate army; evolutions of both in reaching the battle-fields, withdrawals, etc. Roads not traversed direct, are grouped alphabetically, (each contributing its quota of information), quickly found, and easily followed if desired.

All that may be truthfully said of Chattanooga's healthful location, incomparable mineral and timber resources, admirable railway facilities, etc., how it has grown from a war-scourged village, with its few hundred impoverished people, to the thrifty city of today, numbering its population by tens of thousands, has been, and is yet being, so often told by able speakers and writers, nothing is left for the Guide to add; it must be content in faithfully directing visitors to and about this once famous "mountain stronghold" to see and judge for themselves.

So much for our Guide, uttering no praise, no censure, but offered on its own merits as a plain, business-like effort. If more is desired, consult the pages of history or Official Records of the War Department.

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