Cannons mark the battlefield atop Snodgrass Hill in the Chickamauga National Battlefield in Fort Oglethorpe.
Photo by
Tracey Trumbull .
published Sunday, March 25th, 2012
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Just as the Civil War became a watershed event in the nation's history by moving the country closer to the tenets of its founding documents, the battles for control of Chattanooga nearly 150 years ago marked a turning point in the Union's quest of Southern strongholds.







