We at the American Battlefield Trust are re-releasing our Animated Battle Maps with newly branded openings. Following victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg during the summer of 1863, Union forces continued into the Deep South with an offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. Confederate forces led by Braxton Bragg stood firm and gave the Union Army their biggest defeat of the Western Theater in the Civil War.
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ReplyDeleteThanks My G G Grandfather was there .
ReplyDeleteChickamauga is one of the largest "in tact" battlefields in the world today. Students of military history from around the globe visit as part of their studies.
ReplyDeleteA lifetime ago, I did a lot of "living histories" (and reenactments of CW) there and elsewhere. One of the things that always struck me on my visits to the Chickamuaga Battlefield was the huge amounts of ghost stories I heard from locals.
One man and his wife described "hearing" the sounds of wagons, canons, rifles, men yelling, etc. He and his wife told me they were walking in a remote area of the battlefield one evening and thought they were hearing distant thunder, but minutes later it sounded as if a thousand horses were in their midst, but never saw a thing. They seemed like very normal and well grounded people too.
I lived close to the battlefield in the '80s and early '90s. I walked a lot of it, drove the trails, visited a cabin that was used as a field hospital, and can confirm it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
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