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Battle of Chickamauga

Catoosa County · dedicated 1956 · At the intersection of Lafayette Street and Tennessee Street, on the right when traveling north on Lafayette Street in Ringgold.

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Nine miles west of here on Saturday and Sunday, September 19th and 20th, 1863, the bloody battle of Chickamauga was fought. Here, Federal forces of about 60,000 under Major-General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A., fought the two day battle with Confederates, numbering about 66,000, under General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A. Federal losses were about 16,179, Confederate losses were about 17,804. It was a bloody victory for the Confederacy from which it never recovered.

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