Chickamauga & Chattanooga Visit

Chickamauga & Chattanooga

Chickamauga & Chattanooga NPS
Chickamauga video – American Battlefield Trust
Chattanooga video – in 4 minutes
Battlefields.org website – Chickamauga Battlefield
- Hike one of the 5 designated battlefield trails
  - Chickamauga Battlefield Trail Map
  - In addition, the park has developed a series of recommended trail routes highlighting specific stories within Chickamauga Battlefield. These hike routes are especially popular with scouting and youth organizations.
    - General Bragg Trail (5 miles)
    - Confederate Line Trail (6 miles)
    - Memorial Trail (9 miles) – maybe “cheat” and do some walking (sites A-F) and then driving to Lytle and Heg (still ended up being about 5.5 miles!)
    - Historical Trail (11 miles)
    - Cannon Trail (14 miles)
- BE SURE TO VISIT
  - Reed’s Bridge – Bragg’s Confederate forces crossed here on the morning of September 18, skirmishing with Union calvary.
  - Brotherton Farm – 11,000 Confederates from Longstreet’s corps poured through this gap in the Union line, driving the Federals back toward Chattanooga.
  - Snodgrass Hill – Union commander George Thomas consolidated the scattered Union forces and made a determined stand on this hill. His troops were able to hold off repeated Confederate assaults until nightfall, and then withdrew to Chattanooga.
Battlefields.org website – Chattanooga Battlefields
- Lookout Mountain Battlefield Trail Map
- BE SURE TO VISIT
  - Orchard Knob – 14,000 Union troops attacked and captured the 643 Confederates positioned on this hill on the first day of the battle of Chattanooga.
  - Lookout Mountain – Union soldiers advanced on this position on the second day of the battle, forcing the Confederates to retreat to Missionary Ridge.
  - Missionary Ridge – Federal troops successfully overran the Confederate defenses and forced a Rebel retreat, ending the siege of Chattanooga.

OTHER HIKES IN THE CHATTANOOGA AREA

Brown’s Ferry Federal Road Trace – “embark on a unique 1.2-mile, roundtrip hike that traverses a portion of the road trace emigrating groups of Cherokee walked over during the Trail of Tears in 1838 and Union army supply wagons rumbled over during the Civil War in 1863. Along your hike, you will encounter several interpretive wayside exhibits that provide more in-depth information concerning this special place.”
Blue Blazes Trail
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On the way from Cinci to Chattanooga