Chickamauga Battlefield & Lookout Mountain Civil War Sites

The September 1863 Battle of Chickamauga was the bloodiest two-day engagement of the Civil War — 34,000 casualties in 48 hours across the farm fields and cedar thickets of what is now Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. The battlefield south of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia preserves 5,400 acres of the original terrain with a 7-mile auto tour road, cavalry monuments, and the Visitor Center's full-scale diorama and documentary. Lookout Mountain on the second day provides the other angle on the Chattanooga campaign: the November 1863 Battle Above the Clouds on the mountain's fog-shrouded slopes, preserved at Point Park on the summit with the Cravens House (the only structure to survive the fighting). Together the two battlefields tell the complete story of the Confederate defeat at Chattanooga that opened the way for Sherman's March to Atlanta.