Chickamauga Battlefield in Georgia

[Tim A.]

This weekend marked the 147th anniversary of the Civil War battle that took place here in the sleepy town of Chickamauga Georgia. There were re-enactors from all over. The battlefield has been a national military park since the 1890's to honor the over 40,000 Union and Confederate wounded or killed in the three day conflict.
The park has a museum with a top notch collection of Civil War era weapons, artillery, and equipment.

Some pics of the day- A Union artillery group takes a break, The Union battery in action and the Georgia monument guarded by a smoothbore from a Confederate battery.

Tim

 

[jknaus]

Very neat. When I was a kid we took a vacation down to Florida and visited almost every Civil War park etc on the way. Was very interesting.
James

 

[shawngehling]

Neat...
Shawn

 

[moon puppy]

It was a great day for such a remembrance. Some of the great names of the Confederacy can be found on that battlefield. Longstreet, Forrest, John B Hood..names that will ring time and time again during that dark time.

 

[Tim A.]

moon puppy wrote:

It was a great day for such a remembrance. Some of the great names of the Confederacy can be found on that battlefield. Longstreet, Forrest, John B Hood..names that will ring time and time again during that dark time.

Yes it was. I drive through the park everyday to work and it never gets old!
Interesting today, I watched and listened to a group of re-enactors off by themselves discussing and argueing over battle movements that took place 1863 using acorns and sticks, they are passionate historians.

Tim

 

[moon puppy]

Yeah those guys look like the hardcore "Confederates in the Attic" types.

 

[kaleu]

Great pictures. Thanks for posting...

 

[Tim A.]

Thanks for looking Kaleu.

An interesting note; In the Cannon firing pic I captured two of the four guns firing, the other two fired a second later. The breeze was blowing in our direction and in just a few seconds the black powder smoke completely obscured the entire battery, this was just from four cannons. Imagine the blinding smoke screen created by a hundred cannon plus musket fire as in the real battles. It's amazing they hit anything.


Tim

 

[panzerace007]

HOOD,

Thanx for Posting. Looked like a Cool event. Being from Richmond V.A. We have a few Battlefields around here. It's an Awesome Living History Lesson !!

Thanx for Sharing !

ERIK