Chickamauga

Chickamagua means “river of death.” It was a battle during the Civil War. Its also the host of a marathon in November.

I picked up a copy of Blue & Gray (a Civil War glossy magazine) and they are currently running a series of articles on the battle of Chickamauga. The best part of Blue & Gray is, in my humble opinion, the driving tours. They are very good, at least the Gettysburg ones I’ve used are. Anyway, if I pick up a Civil War magazine, it usually is Blue & Gray because I like the tours so much. The current issue is on McLemore’s Cove. I’m a definite eastern-theater girl (my expertise, if I can dare say I have any, is most certainly with the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia), but I have done some reading on Chickamauga (Cozzens, mainly) and it is an interesting battle. It a western battle with some eastern flavor because Longstreet’s corps was there on the Southern side. I think I’m going to start collecting the Chickamauga campaign issues so if I ever take a trip to Georgia, I can be prepared and maybe have some idea of what I am looking at.

Tags: battlefields, Chickamauga, civil war, history