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Chickamauga & the Northwest Georgia Battlefields

The bloodiest ground in Georgia, from Chickamauga's carnage to the fall of the Dalton line.

Self-guided driving tour in Fort Oglethorpe to Resaca · 58.0 mi · driving · ~6h · 8 stops

Chickamauga & the Northwest Georgia Battlefields — The bloodiest ground in Georgia, from Chickamauga's carnage to the fall of the Dalton line. · Georgia Roam self-guided tour
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The Tour

Follow the war's bloodiest fighting in Georgia, from the two-day slaughter at Chickamauga in September 1863 through the rearguard stands and mountain-gap battles that opened Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign. This driving trail runs north to south and roughly in the order the fighting unfolded, from Fort Oglethorpe down to the Confederate dead at Resaca.

Chickamauga & the Northwest Georgia Battlefields is a self-guided driving tour of Fort Oglethorpe to Resaca, built around its civilwar side.

The walk covers 8 stops over about 58.0 miles and roughly 6 hours, entirely at your own pace. Each stop's story unlocks on your phone the moment you arrive — GPS-triggered, hands-free, no guide and no tour group to keep up with.

What you get

Stops
8
GPS-triggered along the route
Distance
58.0 mi
driving
Time
6h 0m
at your own pace
Access
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