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Jr. Bradford Ripley Wood
A veteran of the Union signal corps, he wrote a vivid firsthand account of the fighting around Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge. His short work brings battlefield geography and memory together in a direct, eyewitness voice.
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Chattanooga or Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge from Moccasin Point
by Jr. Bradford Ripley Wood
About the author
Bradford Ripley Wood Jr. is known for Chattanooga or Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge from Moccasin Point, a brief Civil War narrative preserved by Project Gutenberg. The text identifies him as a brevet captain, later brevet major, and places him in Albany, New York.
His book grew out of a paper read on September 10, 1907, at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association in Saratoga Springs, New York. In it, he recalls serving in the signal corps attached to the Army of the Cumberland during the 1863 Chattanooga campaign, giving readers an eyewitness perspective on the Union assault.
Because reliable biographical material on him is limited in the sources I could confirm here, much of his wider life remains unclear. What does come through clearly is his value as a firsthand witness: his writing is concise, place-based, and especially interesting for listeners who enjoy Civil War history told by someone who saw the landscape for himself.