The following news release was furnished by Friends of the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park website:

Chattanooga Regional History Museum and Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park team up on Saturday, November 18th for a Battle of Chattanooga tour. The tour will begin at 1 PM at the Museum, 400 Chestnut Street in downtown Chattanooga. Pricing and transportation are still being determined. Interested participants should call the Museum after November 5th (423-265-3247) for final details.

All of Chattanooga as we know it today was a battleground during America's Civil War. Trace the Battle of Chattanooga on this informative tour, focusing on the role of Union General George H. 'Rock of Chickamauga' Thomas’ Army of the Cumberland.

The tour will follow in the footsteps of the soldiers of the Army of the Cumberland as they endured the siege of Chattanooga and marched to dramatic victory on Missionary Ridge. Tour leaders are Dr. Daryl Black, Curator, CRHM, and James (Jim) Ogden III, Historian, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. Black and Ogden will explain the siege of Chattanooga while touring the site of General Thomas’ Headquarters, the inner and outer fortifications built by Union Army engineers, and Fort Wood. From there, the tour will pick up the dramatic advance of the Union Army of the Cumberland as they marched forward to capture Orchard Knob – where the tour will stop for a thorough examination of the site where Thomas and Ulysses S. Grant watched the Army of the Cumberland storm Missionary Ridge. It will then examine the sector of the Confederate defensive line below and on Missionary Ridge where the first Union penetrations of Confederate defenses took place.

The tour should last about 3 hours