Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly joined several city leaders to mark the official donation of land on Missionary Ridge.

Jim Ogden of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, talked about why control of Chattanooga during the U.S. Civil War was so important to both the North and the South. In 1863 ...

Civil War Engagements in the Chattanooga Area. ... The nation is mid-way through the second year of the sesquicentennial of the great civil war which ripped this country apart from 1861-1865.

Chattanooga, a strategic hub that was the site of skirmishes between 1862 and 1863, didn't have as difficult a recovery as other cities in the South, said local attorney and Civil War historian ...

In the 1860s, the Civil War brought destruction to the Chattanooga-area landscape. But today, the war and the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park that memorializes it bring the ...

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American Digger Events is hosting the first annual Chattanooga Civil War Show & Sale, to be held at Camp Jordan Arena in East Ridge July 28-29. Over 200 tables of Civil War relics ...

The ridges and fields around Chattanooga were the grounds for some of the bloodiest fighting of the Civil War. In the fall of 1863, the Union Army retreated into the city after its loss at Chickamauga ...

Oct. 23—A Civil War documentary that includes perspectives from several Chattanooga-area residents will premiere Sunday on MSNBC. For "The Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are)," Emmy-nominated ...

One month later, in April 1865, General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to the forces of Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, essentially ending the Civil War.

Authors and historians talked about the people, personalities, and progression of the Chattanooga Campaign in autumn of 1863 during the U.S. Civil War. In a series of battles in October and ...