• Cannons overlook the City of Chattanooga from atop Lookout Mountain

    Chickamauga & Chattanooga

    National Military Park GA,TN

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  • Mountain Beautiful Trail Closure on Lookout Mountain

    Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is advising the Mountain Beautiful Trail will be closed effective January 2, 2013, and will remain closed until further notice. It is located on the east side of Lookout Mountain, above the Hardy Trail.

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Civil War News

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The Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections, Emory University

Electronic copies of the park's newsletter can be found below. Please click on the desired volume and issue to download "The Battlefield Dispatch."

Volume 1, Issue 1 Volume 1, Issue 2 Volume 1, Issue 3 Volume 1, Issue 4
Volume 2, Issue 1 Volume 2, Issue 2

Volume 2, Issue 3

 Volume 2, Issue 4
Volume 3, Issue 1 Volume 3, Issue 2

Did You Know?

Snodgrass Hill, where Bierce was present on Sept. 20, 1863

Ambrose Bierce, noted American writer of the late 19th Century, and author of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga," and other Civil War stories, served as topographical engineer (map maker) on General William B. Hazen's staff during the Chattanooga Campaign.