In this area, on September 19th 1863, the first desperate fighting for control of the vitally important rail center of Chattanooga took place.
The Eighty-fourth Indiana Regiment, memorialized by a marker on this property was part of a 60,000 . . . — — Map (db m106538) HM
On yonder hill rests
the remains of
General Daniel Newnan
Born 1780 - Died 1851
Veteran of the War of 1812
Major General Georgia
Militia, 3rd Division, 1817
Secretary of State 1825 - 1827
U.S. Congressman 1831 - 1833
This Monument . . . — — Map (db m68924)
On May 29, 1963 the grand lodge of Georgia, Free and Accepted Masons, with M. W. Brother Ralph A. Perry, Grand Master, presiding, dedicated the restored John Ross House, home of John Ross, principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1828-1866) and . . . — — Map (db m130172) HM
No. 3...................................... U.
Cruft's Division - Granger's Corps
Brig. Gen. Charles Cruft.
Nov. 25, 1863, 5 P.M.
2d Brigade - Brig. Gen. Walter C. Whitaker.
3d Brigade - Col. . . . — — Map (db m46427) HM
Geary's Division - Slocum's Corps
Brigadier General John W. Geary
November 25, 1863, 3:30 p.m.
1st Brigade - Colonel William R. Creighton
2nd Brigade - Colonel George A. Cobham, Jr.
3rd Brigade - Colonel David Ireland . . . — — Map (db m105540) HM
Home of John Ross
Great Chief of the
Cherokees
Born Oct.3.1790
Died Aug.1.1866
Marked by
William Marsh Chapter
Daughters American Revolution
July 12, 1922 — — Map (db m130171) HM
Hooker's Column.
Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.
Nov. 25, 1863, 3 P.M.
Osterhaus' Division, 15th Corps - Brig. Gen. Peter J. Osterhaus.
Cruft's Division, 4th Corps - Brig. Gen. Charles Cruft.
Geary's Division, 12th . . . — — Map (db m46556) HM
[Front Side]
May this shaft register alike
the sacrifice of our fallen brothers
and our purpose
to perpetuate their memory
by citizenship worthy
of the heritage they left us,
a re-united and glorious union.
[Left Side, . . . — — Map (db m81666) HM
Ireland's Brigade
Geary's Division - Slocum's Corps.
Colonel David Ireland
November 25, 1863, 4 P.M.
60th New York - Colonel Abel Godard
78th New York - Lieutenant Colonel Herbert von Hammerstein
102nd New York - . . . — — Map (db m105594) HM
This comfortable two-story log house was the home of Cherokee Chief John Ross from boyhood until he went west over the "Trail of Tears," losing his Indian wife enroute. Although only one-eighth Indian himself, Ross was the elected "Principal Chief" . . . — — Map (db m12673) HM
By nightfall on Sunday, September 20, 1863, more
than two-thirds of the surviving Federal “Army of the
Cumberland” had retreated from the Chickamauga
battlefield through this narrow gap in Missionary
Ridge. One of the Federal army's . . . — — Map (db m142875) HM
The first vehicular and postal route of Georgia to Rossville was the Federal Road across the Cherokee Nation. Beginning on the southeast Indian boundary in the direction of Athens, Georgia, the thoroughfare led this way toward Nashville via Tate, . . . — — Map (db m12676) HM
A major objective of General Braxton Bragg's Confederate Army of Tennessee during the Chickamauga Campaign was to block the Federal Army from Chattanooga. Similarly, General William Rosecrans' Federal Army of the Cumberland made every effort to keep . . . — — Map (db m67740) HM
In Memoriam Rossville High Alumni who gave their lives in the service of their country. Marion E. Patrick May 6, 1967 Eddie Holland Jan. 5, 1968 Dennis Melton June 6, 1968 — — Map (db m47085) HM
Dedicated to the glory of God in memory of the sons and daughters of this community who laid down their lives in defense of their country Dedicated May 30, 1968 — — Map (db m47084) HM
At the time of the Civil War the community of Rossville, Georgia consisted of no more than a half dozen buildings. The most conspicuous of these structures was a two-story log dwelling built in 1797 by John McDonald, maternal grandfather of John . . . — — Map (db m130173) HM
Mr. Xzanders Gordon McFarland of Walker County (Rossville Georgia) was a slave holder. So when the Civil War took his two oldest sons into the army, he gathered his slaves, his four teenage daughters and his stock and went to South Georgia for . . . — — Map (db m238820) HM
