Georgia
When the guns fell silent at Chickamauga and Sherman ground toward Atlanta, the true crisis of the Confederacy in Georgia was fought in churches, hotels, colleges, and tent camps turned into hospitals. This driving tour traces the wayside homes and hospital towns where a handful of exhausted surgeons faced tens of thousands of wounded and fever-struck men, with never enough beds, chloroform, or hands. It runs roughly north to south, following the flood of casualties from the 1863 battlefields down through the hospital towns that emptied ahead of the invading army.
Overwhelmed: Georgia's Civil War Hospitals & Doctors is a self-guided driving tour of Statewide, built around its civilwar side. It's one of 4 Georgia Roam tours in Statewide — each a different route through the city, on your own schedule.
The walk covers 8 stops over about 400.0 miles and roughly 10 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.