Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / The rising run illuminates Dyer Field, as the monument and cannons of the 1st Ohio Artillery, Battery G still stand in shadow on Sept. 20, 2022. 159 years ago, Sept. 20, 1863, the Union and Confederate Armies, totally around a combined 125,000 men, with nearly 35,000 becoming causalities, would engage on the second day of the Battle of Chickamauga. The fighting would begin around 9:30 a.m. at the north end of Chickamauga National Battlefield Park.
