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The Wilder Brigade Monument (also known as the Wilder Tower) is a large public monument located at the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Walker County, Georgia, United States. The monument, which consists of a stone watchtower , was erected to honor the Lightning Brigade (led by John T. Wilder ) of the Northern Union Army 's ...
Wilder Tower, early 20th century postcard. The Lightning Brigade, also known as Wilder's Brigade or the Hatchet Brigade was a mounted infantry brigade from the American Civil War in the Union Army of the Cumberland from March 8, 1863, through November 1863.
Wilder Brigade Monument at the Chickamauga Battlefield unit. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, located in northern Georgia and southeastern Tennessee, preserves the sites of two major battles of the American Civil War: the Battle of Chickamauga and the Siege of Chattanooga.
New York State Monument (1893) New York Auxiliary State Monument (1925) Pennsylvania State Memorial, Gettysburg, 1914 also includes several portrait statues, Abraham Lincoln (1911–13) by J. Otto Schweizer, west side; Governor Andrew Curtin (1911–13) by William Clark Noble, west side; General George Meade (1911–13) by Lee Lawrie, north side
In December 1862, the regiment received a new brigade commander, Colonel John T. Wilder. After frustrating chases on foot after mounted rebel cavalry raiders, the brigade was converted to mounted infantry. At the same time, Wilder proposed to the regiments in the brigade the private purchase of repeating rifles.
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John Thomas Wilder (January 31, 1830 – October 20, 1917) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, noted principally for capturing the critical mountain pass of Hoover's Gap during the Tullahoma Campaign in Central Tennessee in June 1863.
Hazen's brigade, containing the 124th, patrolled up and down the valley. [24] Wagner's brigade patrolled from the plateau down to the river. Minty' cavalry troopers and Wilder's men pounded on tubs and sawed boards, sending pieces of wood downstream, to make the Confederates think that rafts were being constructed for a crossing north of the city.