Tour Stop #8: Horseshoe Ridge and Snodgrass Hill

Veterans of the 2nd Minnesota Infantry gather around their monument on Horseshoe Ridge.

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Quick Facts

Location:

Chickamauga Battlefield

US soldiers held the ridge throughout the afternoon, repulsing repeated Confederate assaults. As darkness fell, one final assault revealed the remaining US troops had slipped away to Chattanooga. After three days of fighting, the Confederate Army of Tennessee was victorious.