Title	Map of Chickamauga Battlefield
Subject	Maps--Topography Pictorial maps Maps--Midwest--Ohio Civil War 1861-1865 Historical Marker
Time Period	1860s 1890s
Place	Chickamauga (Georgia) Delaware County (Ohio)
Description	Caption: Chickamauga Battlefield sketched by J.G. McElroy of the Ohio Commission, Late Captain 18th Ohio Infantry 1895. The Great Seal of the State of Ohio lies below. Made in 1895, this map includes Ohio monuments and tablet markers in relation to strategic movements of the Confederate and Union forces on September 18 and 19, 1863. The battle pitted the Union's Army of the Cumberland, commanded by General William Rosecrans of Ohio, against the Confederate's Army of Tennessee, commanded by General Braxton Bragg. The Northern army numbered approximately sixty thousand men, while the Confederates had forty-three thousand soldiers. Major General William S. Rosecrans from Delaware County, Ohio commanded the Army of the Cumberland.
Creator	J.G. McElroy
Date of Original	September 19, 1863
Format	picture
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Chikamauga_ALConsWOH4261-9.tif
Image Height	6389
Image Width	9608
File Size	111702452 Bytes
Date created	2011-06-25

Map of Chickamauga Battlefield

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