![]() ![]() The Chickamauga Battlefield is located between Fort Olglethorpe, Georgia and Chickamauga, Georgia. By preserving the event then that directly impacted so many soldiers and farm families, it continues to impact visitors a 150 years later as part of the Chickamagua and Chattanooga National Military Park. This area of woods and several small farms before the battle would become a National Military Park in 1890 by an act of the United States Congress. It was second in causalities only to the battle at Gettysburg during the Civil War. The battle at Chickamauga, Georgia took place September 19 & 20, 1863, resulting in the death of over 34,000 soldiers (Union and Confederate).
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