Tour Stop #5: Viniard Field

Tabler Viniard's final resting place is in the Chattanooga National Cemetery

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Location:

Chickamauga Battlefield

Step back one day to September 19. Thousands of soldiers, one division at a time, fought back and forth across this field trying to gain control of LaFayette Road. When sunset came, neither side held the road, yet thousands had paid the ultimate sacrifice. 

Tabler Viniard, the father of the family who owned and farmed the land surrounding this tour stop, enlisted in the 1st Georgia Infantry, US. Unfortunately, he passed away in 1864, while stationed in North Alabama. He is buried in the Chattanooga National Cemetery.