Tour Stop #7: Rout of the Union Right

Confederate General John B. Hood was wounded just north and east of Tour Stop #7.

Harpers Weekly

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Location:

Chickamauga Battlefield

Confederate soldiers swept out of the woods and into the fiels in what one commander called "a scene of unsurpassed grandeur." This attack collapsed the US right, forcing the defenders, including US General Rosecrans, to flee.