Chickamauga and Chattanooga Battlefields / Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park—Georgia, Tennessee

The handbook outlines the strategic importance of Chattanooga and East Tennessee and recounts the 1863 campaigns that moved from Tullahoma to the Confederate victory at Chickamauga, the Union siege at Chattanooga, and the later relief and assaults culminating on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. It analyzes troop movements, command decisions, reinforcements, and battlefield actions, assesses military, economic, and political factors behind operations, and considers the campaigns' effects on the wider war. Practical material for visitors is included, with site descriptions, orders of battle, maps, suggested readings, and administrative and visitor information about the preserved military park.