CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK CHATTANOOGA AND ITS IMPORTANCE DURING THE CIVIL WAR THE CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA THE SIEGE AND BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA REGIMENTAL LOSSES—HERE AND ELSEWHERE CIVIL WAR PRISONS DID YOU KNOW THAT HISTORIC SITES IN CHATTANOOGA COMPLETE INDEX OF UNION AND CONFEDERATE ORGANIZATIONS AT CHICKAMAUGA, CHATTANOOGA, OR BOTH PREFACE _The following pages have been written after a careful study of the Official records and other Civil War library books to which I have had access over a period of years, and not upon the recollection of personal experience, as I did not belong to the generation which fought the great Civil War. It has been my desire to make all statements as accurate as possible, and sincerely believe that any and all statements contained in this volume can be verified by the Official Records. I wish to express my thanks to the War Department, under whose authority the Official Records were published. I also wish to express my thanks to the late Hon. Charles W. Lusk of Chattanooga, Tennessee, for his valuable suggestions._ [Illustration: Entrance to Point Park. Lookout Mountain] [Illustration: Riderless Horse—Chickamauga Battlefield] CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK (Georgia and Tennessee) By an act of Congress, approved August 19, 1890, the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park was established, with a view to preserving and suitably marking those battlefields for historical and professional military study. The part undertaken by the Government in the establishment of this park embraced the purchase of lands, restoration of the fields, construction of roads and trails, building of observation towers, the erection of appropriate monuments to the regular troops engaged there, the preparation of hundreds of historical tablets for the various organizations of the contending armies, the mounting of original guns in their exact positions during the battles and the erection of shell pyramids, both of square-base and triangular-base type. The park was created as a result of the reunion of the Army of the Cumberland which was held in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on September 19-20, 1889. At this reunion, the Chickamauga Memorial Association was formed. Gen. John T. Wilder was elected president and Gen. Joseph Wheeler vice-president. Then a Board of Directors, numbering 28, were elected. Of this number, an equal division was made of ex-Union and ex-Confederate officers.