2015 Final Battlefield Excursion

Chickamauga Battlefield Class Presentations
April 18, 2015

Stop 1: Visitor’s Center:

Jessica Strickland: Stage Setting and Brief Overview: The Chattanooga Campaign

Stop 2: Wilder’s Monument:

Lauren Miller: John Wilder, his defending of Alexander’s Bridge (18th), and his monument (placed for his defending of the Widow Glenn’s Hill on the 20th)

Renae Geisler: The Michigan Monuments and Letters about Wilder

Stop 3: Battleline Road and LaFayette Road: Morning and Early Afternoon of September 20

Sam Doss: Leonidas Polk’s Non-Attack on the morning of the 20th and Benjamin Cheatham and Helm’s Monument

Renae Geisler: Letters about Cheatham

Noah Hinton: The 35th Ohio and their re-establishment of the Union left

Haley Thistlethwaite: Ferdinand van Derveer and the Kentucky State Monument

Ranae Geisler: Letters about Vanderveer

Stop 4: LaFayette Road

Haley Thistlethwaite: Longstreet’s Breakthrough of the Union Line

Stop 5: Lunch at Choo Choo’s Barbeque in Chickamauga, Georgia

Stop 6: Snodgrass Hill: Afternoon of September 20

Shannon Rowe: George Thomas, the fact that there is no Thomas Monument, and Gordon Granger’s Reinforcement of Horseshoe Ridge

Renae Geisler: Letters about Thomas, and presentation about William Stouten

Adam Gilbert: Aftermath of the Battle of Chickamauga

Stop 7: Visitor’s Center:

Noah Hinton: Preservation of the Battlefield through the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

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