Lulu Lake on Lookout Mountain

[ca. 1861–1865]

From "War Memories" catalog: This beautiful little lake is on the celebrated Lookout Mountain. It is a charming spot. A story is told illustrating the well-known tendency of Southern people to tell how grand everything was in the South "befoh the wah." One evening since the war, a Northern party were sitting on the banks of this little lake, admiring the perfect loveliness of the scene. One of the Northern gentlemen said that the reflection of the moon's rays from the mirror-like surface of the lake was simply perfect that nothing could be more lovely. A Southern lady after listening to their many praises of the wonderful beauty of the moon reflected from the lake, sighed sadly as she replied, "ah! yes, it's very pretty, but you ought to have seen it 'before the war.'"