With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s initial battles approaching, there is no better time to build travel around history.
Regional maps and histories of the Civil War share the same names: Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Stones River, Resaca, Tunnel Hill.
Georgia boasts the nation’s first and oldest national military park at the Chickamauga Battlefield. The Civil War Trails program has installed more than 1,000 interpretive markers at Civil War sites in Tennessee and North Carolina, and Alabama is tied to the early days of the Confederacy.
TENNESSEE
Invade the Volunteer State.