Chickamauga | Civil War Historian Gives Guided Tour

Jump in the car with author and historian Dave Powell for a full tour of Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park, as well as the Chattanooga National Cemetery. We visit all of the pivotal locations including Alexander's Bridge, Brotherton Cabin, Snodgrass Hill and more. Be sure to also check out our tours of Gettysburg, Shiloh and Yorktown.
There is no replacement for being able to see America's Hallowed Grounds in person, but we hope this serves as a worthy option for the virtual experience. We encourage you to visit Chickamauga in-person. Check out our Chickamauga itinerary to aid with doing so: www.battlefields.org/visit/it...
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0:00 Welcome to Chickamauga National Military Park
3:51 The Visitor Center
5:31 Reeds Bridge Road
8:44 Jay's Mill
14:30 Alexander's Bridge Tour Stop
21:44 Viniard Road
27:54 Viniard Field Tour Stop
36:30 Lafayette Road
38:41 Chickamauga's Monuments
41:32 Battleline Road Tour Stop
51:05 Battleline Road
56:31 Poe Road
57:54 Brotherton Field Tour Stop
1:06:04 Rosecrans HQ/Dyer Field
1:07:50 Hood's Wounding Tour Stop
1:10:56 Snodgrass Hill Approach
1:13:34 Horseshoe Ridge Tour Stop
1:27:49 Chattanooga National Cemetery

[@The_FloridaMan]

It's great to see other battlefields and not just Gettysburg.

[@michaeleverett7247]

These guided tours are fantastic 👍

[@timhyde5677]

Totally agree. Looking forward to more in the future

[@georgevacca5243]

Thank you to Mr. Powell and American Battlefield Trust for this tour. I am just finishing Mr. Powell's trilogy on the battle, and the video was a tremendous help in seeing the places detailed in his three books. It is my privilege to be a member of the American Battlefield Trust, and I encourage all who appreciate their work to stand with them as they preserve, educate and inspire.

[@stevearchtoe7039]

I am from Wisconsin. Drove to Florida. My wife and I were trapped in a snowstorm between Nashville and Chattanooga. and the radio suggested that since the state highway south through Chattanooga bc it would take at least six hours to get through that sitting in the interstate. some state routes were still open south of Chattanooga so we took it. There was about 4 inches of snow on the ground. And on the cannons. It was dark out, and it was the most eerie yet beautiful drive that I have ever taken, and it still haunts my memory to this day just amazing.

[@Bodiddley788]

My GG Grandfather fought here with the Mississippi 7th Company I, but they did combine units, I think the 9th and 10th regiments.

[@garrettz72]

Great job, Mr. Powell. Thank you.

[@stuartthornton3027]

Greetings from Uk 👍

[@fastsetinthewest]

After this great tour, I'm telling my brothers to donate to American Battlefield Trust. Our gg grandfather fought for Tennessee at Chickamauga and ended with his being captured by Sherman's forces near Macon.

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

Incredible, and thank you!

[@BillsHistoricSites-ip3su]

A great video

[@josephsmith742]

Hey great job yall! Loved it. Well deserved for its 160! Fortunate to have lived on missionary ridge for many years now. And to be on this one big battlefield Chattanooga and Chickamauga. One point I'd like to make on the soldiers battle and there preferred monuments. I think the commanders on both sides were very blue collar and gritty. In the trenches with there men for quite some time up to Chickamauga. It been cool to have a Rosecrans and Bragg horse monuments in the backgrounds of the battlefield kinda looming. Then a Wilder, Hood, Thomas, etc. monuments. Clashing over the Lafayette road and Snodgrass hill. Been nice!

[@velikijoxotnik]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@tylerdowdy3038]

Always a joy to watch

[@jerryumfress9030]

My gg granddad was Joseph Howard Powell, he fought at Chickamauga, he was in Company H 5th Alabama Cavalry. He survived the war, and moved to Itawamba County Mississippi and died there at 91 years of age

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

Amazing, thank you for sharing.

[@MiggerPlease]

Cowards

[@MiggerPlease]

@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhimcowards

[@neilandersen2150]

This really helped me understand the battle. Great job. I had an ancestor in the 30th Miss. Walthal's Brigade at Chickamauga..

[@rdderrick75]

Excellent

[@joshk1911]

Always great programming from ABT. Elysburg Pennsylvania

[@mwdjr3158]

Fantastic!

[@gettysburgbrian]

Great job!

[@ktd9]

Great presentation…Thanks🙏🙏

[@JBryanHughes]

Thank you ABT and Dave Powell!

[@AK-zw1re]

Great presentation. Excellent.

[@Shawnroberts1980]

These tours are so awesome. AND>>>>in 4K...heck yah! Looks awesome too. Thank you!

[@Skynet_01]

@ 1:20.30 Dave is absolutely correct... GG Grandfather was a 1st Lt. 4th Kentucky (Union) who rallied at the hill. He so loved Thomas for this moment that he later named one of his son's my G Grandfather brother, George Thomas. George went on to fight in WW1 and ascended to the Federal Bench nominated by President Coolidge for the 10th Circuit. My GG Grandfather was also wounded here and was assumed mortally due to not being able to evacuate, which made the stand mean so much to him. He survived and rejoined the unit after it too was mounted and given spencer rifles, fighting at Franklin, Nashville, and the raid on the University of Alabama.

[@WindersRanger]

Excellent and comprehensive tour! Thank you!

[@joeritchie4554]

Thank you for posting this video. It was so educational and taught me a lot about this battle that I never knew.

[@Tippy2987]

I'm watching this as we drive to the 160th event.

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

Hope you’re not the one at the wheel!

[@BellesDreams]

Thank you Mr Powell for this tour, my great great grand uncle who was attached to the 49th Vol Inf of Ohio regiment that was left behind during a retreat ( I feel that they didn’t get the order in time) on Sept 19th and ultimately captured and sent to Andersonville Prisoner Camp and eventually would die 11months later (Aug 4th 1864) of malnutrition and dysentery, he was only 23 when he died. This gives me an idea where my family fought for our nation 🇺🇸

[@royqueen791]

The 49th Ohio Infantry was a hard fighting regiment. There is a regiment history published that is very well written.

[@Worthrhetime]

Fantastic work. Thank you.

[@USAFCCF]

Well done! Thank you for the tour. Mr. Powell, I really liked your descriptions and explanations of the battle. Your books are a must read to learn more about the battle.

[@beckysteinmiller338]

Excellent tour thank you!

[@patjherbert]

Outstanding. Thank you.

[@andygossard4293]

Dave Powell- bravo, Sir. You are helping give some real understanding to this complex battle.

[@michaelhoffman5348]

Excellent job Dave - thank you for this tour. Hope to get to the battlefield next year.

[@cola81374]

Awesome! thank you so much for a great battlefield tour! loved it!

[@lawrencekirwin9665]

Honestly! This the best ABT Video ever! The knowledge and attention to detail is superb!

[@NjK601]

I've read that sheep love eating that Chinese privet, though it might be quite the expense to truck them in, and close off sections of the park for a day.

[@jeantaylor8038]

A most excellent work! Cannot speak more highly of this presentation. One of the best I have ever watched.

[@zaccox108]

My 3x great grandfather fought here 16th tennessee volunteer infantry captain company G

[@alexcasal1]

One of my favorite videos on KZbin.

[@JeffL-rj1xq]

Thank you David and ABT for this great driving tour! As a long time Trust member I am really loving these extended trips around the battlefields. Chickamauga is definitely a battle that is far overlooked in my opinion, so it's great to have this opportunity to explore it. 🙂

[@andrewmcneil6668]

I have toured this battlefield 2 times. The first time in 2019 and just this past August. While the radio channel you can tune in to for narration at each key point is nice, it would be great to have someone like yourself guiding a tour in person. In any case, great video and thank you.

[@user-su7fd5fn8h]

What a wonderful tour. Thanks for your books and your efforts!

[@user-gu5rf3pf4i]

Excellent tour Mr. Powell; thank you!

[@blakebufford6239]

Great commentary! Thanks very much! I'm glad someone is bringing this battle to life.

[@bigsarge2085]

✌️

[@t.a.169]

Great presentation! I grew up not far from here... Mission Ridge Road. I spent a lot of weekends in " the park".

[@DonaldKDever]

I love these tours!❤ Thank you!

[@theiceman67]

My father moved to a small town just south of this battlefield. On one of our visits there, his dog got loose on Horseshoe ridge and bolted down into the woods after a deer. I had to chase after her for about 5 hours all by myself alone in the woods and crossing some fields, eventually hiking back up to the top, exhausted. It was a blessing in disguise though, as being totally alone in the woods gave me an almost eerie haunting feeling I'll never forget. I'm not into ghosts or anything like that either, but it really gave me a perspective I'd never have gotten. BTW Park maint. workers eventually found the dog and called, for a happy ending.

[@AmericanBattlefieldTrust]

I actually found myself in the same woods by myself as I had accidentally dropped the lens cap for a camera and had to go back and find it amongst the leaves 😅 so I've had a similar experience. - AP

[@pyewackett5]

Good job you didn't come upon Old Green Eyes ...

[@lawrencekirwin9665]

Outstanding job brother! Thank you!

[@10_a_see]

Been there many times but learned a great from this.

[@platform15gym]

Excellent - thanks

[@lisamoore6804]

I found my great-great-great grandpa's unit, 4th KY Infantry on the battle map in your video. Is there a plaque or monument naming them? Thank you for doing this long of a tour, I've got a better idea of what went on those three days.

[@eadeshogue6702]

My Great Grandfather John Franklin Crawford was a private in Company C, 24 th Ms. Infy Regiment who fought Wilder’s Regiments at the Alexander bridge crossing on the 18teenth and captured cannon on the 19 th and finally was wounded by a spent cannonball on the 20 th near the current visitors center. He spent 6 months in hospitals and ended the War as a prison guard. He returned to Chickasaw County Ms. After the Warwhere he became a successful farmer and raised a fine family. He was a lifelong Democrat.

[@user-yi6ty1ef3b]

Good job

[@ansleyhalliv3127]

When he said that this battle lasted for 3 days like gettysburg for example.

[@eg6turbo92]

You wouldn't happen to have a good source of information regarding the little pop-up town named 'Lytle' that sprung up alongside the Chickamauga Military Park when Camp George H. Thomas was established during the Spanish-American War would you? I've read some things from the Chickamauga Public library along with clippings from the New York Times reporters stationed there during the war, but would love to learn more about it.

[@noneyabeeswax3200]

😮❤❤

[@akacadian3714]

Rah Virginia Mil!

[@smccowan7106]

my 3rd great grandfather was in Company D 16th battalion cavalry. not positive but I am thinking he fought here. and was captured couple months later at the mouth of the Hiwassee river and sent to Rock Island prison. Anyone have any info on if I am right about his cavalry fighting there please let me know. this info isn't easy to find imo

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

Longstreet's breakthrough was not "fate" but the will of God. You have an excellent grasp of the information and I thank you for sharing but you missed the most important part, the point of all of it is for God's glory, that is the only reason things happened like they did.

[@Baskerville22]

How could a U.S. Civil War army commander hope to control his forces over such a massive field of battle ?

[@Brussels413]

"Mix 'em up, I'm tired of states' rights."

[@eddrake9542]

The knowledge is there but the delivery is too clumsy