Chickamauga battlefield

Information on visiting the Chickamauga Battlefield. What to see and expect at the historic Civil War battle site.

Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park is spread across several sites around Chattanooga, Tennessee. There's a main site in Georgia, but there are many more sites you just might not know about. Here is what you've been missing. #travel #nationalpark #chattanooga #tennessee

jacob miller was struck squarely in the forehead with a musket bullet during the battle of chickamauga on september 19, 1863, | left for dead on the battlefield, he regained consciousness hours later and lived for another 54 years | on this photo miller wears his medal of the grand army of the republic, a fraternal organization formed after the war for union veterans

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The oldest and largest of America's Civil War parks, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (NMP), commemorates the 1863 battles for Chattanooga that marked a major turning point in the war. The NMP spans the borders of Georgia and Tennessee, with major units at Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Orchard Knob and Signal Point. The park is headquartered at Chickamauga Battlefield, where the fields and woods of northwest Georgia witnessed the last major Confederate…

A bridge in the Battlefield. Stories say the creek ran red for days with the blood of the fallen. Over 34,000 men were killed in a 30 hour period of time.

The American Battlefield Trust’s map of the Battle of Chickamauga, site of this epic 1863 Civil War battle in Georgia between William Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland and Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee.

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park - Georgia and Tennessee

The 5,200 acre Chickamauga Battlefield in north Georgia, and the 3,000 acre Lookout Mountain Battlefield in southeast Tennessee, together form the Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain National Military Park. Chickamauga was the scene of the last major Confederate victory of the Civil War. Beautiful two lane byways lead visitors through fields and woods which are decorated with scores of monuments, historical tablets, and wayside exhibits. There are also numerous hiking trails. The major points…

Linking to FRIDAY’S FENCES On the way to Florida (READ POST) we stopped for the night in Ringgold,Georgia. There was just enough daylight for a quick tour of The Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Park. In 1890, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was the first such site created by Congress. The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863,involved the second highest number of casualties in the war following the Battle of Gettysburg. (click on link to read Gettysburg…