The World's Most Beautiful Places
A view of a smoothbore bronze cannon at the Chickamuga Civil War battlefield. The Battle of Chickamauga was fought between September 18-20, 1863, between the Union Army commanded by Major General William Rosecrans, and the Confederate Army commanded by General Braxton Bragg. The Battle was a major defeat for the Union forces, with more than 35,000 troops killed, wounded or declared missing/captured from both sides.
The Coat of Arms Flag for Bern, Switzerland, displays a black bear (the city’s namesake), on red and yellow, with black fur, and a red tongue and claws. The flag comes from the founding legend of Bern, where Duke Berthold V of Zähringen declared the city would be named after the first animal he encounted in the forest that was to be cleared to make way for the city. The use of the bear as a symbol for the city dates back as 1224 where it was used on seals for the marking of official government documents.
The historic Lee and Gordon’s Mill in Chickamauga, Georgia. The first mill was built by James Gordon in 1836, and rebuilt with a general store added, in 1857. During the Civil War the Mill changed hands several times between the Union Army, and the Confederates. And was at times the headquarters for the Confederate Army under General Braxton Bragg, and George B. Crittenden. The mill sits along West Chickamauga Creek, which the Chickamauga Battle was named after, and was at times the front line between the two armies.
In 1867 the mill burned and was rebuilt by James Lee, who had married James Gordon’s daughter. Lee operated the mill until his death in 1889.