The Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga

In 1863 a Union army under General William Rosecrans pushed Confederate forces out of Middle Tennessee, through Chattanooga, and all the way to north Georgia.  At Chickamauga, Georgia, in September, General Braxton Bragg’s southern army stopped its retreat, turned, and attacked the pursuing Yankees in what became the bloodiest battle in the Western Theater of the Civil War.  Not only did Bragg’s Confederates defeat their enemy, but they also drove them back to Chattanooga.  There, two months later, Union forces turned the tables on the Rebels by overrunning their positions on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.  This devastating Union victory opened the gateway to Atlanta and hastened the fall of the Confederacy eighteen months later. 

 

Join us for our annual fall excursion hosted by Dr. Tim Johnson, professor of history at Lipscomb University.  We will travel to Chattanooga and visit sites pertaining to the Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. The day’s activities will include lunch at the Chattanooga Choo Choo and a ride up the side of Lookout Mountain on the famous Incline Railway.