0.5 mile hike

Hearing the sound of heavy fighting several miles south of his position on September 20, 1863, Union General Gordon Granger seized the initiative and ordered his Reserve Corps to march toward the sound of battle. Granger’s inexperienced troops arrived on the battlefield to find George Thomas organizing a desperate defense of Snodgrass Hill following the Confederate breakthrough at the Brotherton farm. The men of the Reserve Corps advanced into the fray on Horseshoe Ridge, hoping to thwart Confederate efforts to turn Thomas’ flank. Join a ranger on this one-hour program to walk the ground where the Reserve Corps went into action during the final hours of the Battle of Chickamauga.