1st Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters (marker-98965)

Honors the 1st Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters under Major Arthur Shaaff, which fought at Chickamauga in Wilson's Brigade of Walker's Confederate Reserve Corps during the September 1863 battle.

1st Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters is a historical marker in Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, erected in 1898. It is one of 114 historical markers documented in Catoosa County, among 143 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 34.9342, -85.2550 near Fort Oglethorpe. The nearest cataloged historic site is 2d Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include 8th Georgia Infantry Battalion, 1st Confederate Georgia, 2nd Battalion Infantry, and 30th Georgia Infantry.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.