Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park

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Chickamauga Visitor Center

These exhibits tell the story the Union and Confederate battles here in the fall of 1863. As the visitor approaches the main exhibit room from the lobby, graphics and text on panels in the passageway provide in-depth interpretation of the causes of the Civil War. Then, exhibits on the battle use vivid text, graphics, mannequins, models, artifacts, and audiovisual elements to provide detailed military information as well as the human side of the story.

On a central platform, a reproduction of an officer's tent does double duty as an artifact case. The tent is furnished with artifacts which an officer would have used. One end of the tent is open, but acrylic glazing encloses the objects and forms part of a hidden structure which provides a protective environment with fiber-optic lighting. Realistic cast figures of two soldiers with their weapons – one Union and one Confederate – are mounted within a scenic display on the platform.

A 24-foot wide by 4-foot high panorama map was created with digital three-dimensional mapping techniques to provide a bird's eye perspective of the battlefield and its surrounding area. Scale models of horse-drawn battery wagons in a display below interpret the movement of men and materials to and from the battlefields.

Planning and Design: Harpers Ferry Center and Miles Fridbert Molinaroli, Inc.

Audiovisual Programs: Harpers Ferry Center

Exhibit Fabrication: Hadley Exhibits, Inc.

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