Besides the large historical tablets, there are guide tablets at every crossroads giving distances and direction to the prominent points of the field, and many locality tablets marking the sites of houses and fields which were landmarks in the battle, points where prominent officers were wounded, and where notable captures of prisoners or guns occurred. The fighting positions of all batteries will be marked, as they are identified, by guns of the same kind used in the battle by the battery, mounted upon cast iron carriages painted so as to be an exact representation of the carriage of 1861. The Chief of Ordnance, Gen. D. W. Flagler, and his assistant, Capt. V. McNally, took every pains to procure from the stock of old guns on hand in the various arsenals, enough of the kinds used by the thirty-five Union and the thirty-nine Confederate batteries engaged, to carry out the plan. The spots where general officers, or those exercising the command of a general officer, were killed or mortally wounded, are marked by triangular pyramids of eight inch shells, ten feet in height. A tablet on each gives name, rank, and army of the officer killed. There were four of these on each side, all commanding brigades, namely: Col. Philemon P. Baldwin, Col. Hans C. Heg, Col. Edward A. King, and Brig.-Gen. William H. Lytle, on the Union side; and Col. Peyton H. Colquitt, Brig.-Gen. Ben Hardin Helm, Brig. Gen. James Deshler, and Brig.-Gen. Preston Smith, on the Confederate. The lines of the rude works used by each side in various parts of the field have been found and are to be restored. As a All the lines of each day's battle are being marked. rule, the regimental monuments are erected where the representatives of the regiments think the organizations made the most notable record. Other positions are then to be designated by granite markers. Those adopted by the Ohio Commission, the first to erect them, are fifteen inches square, and three feet high, one face being polished to receive the desig nation of the organization, and the day and time it occupied the position. It will thus be seen that the field is being thoroughly marked, and that not only general movements, but those of every regiment and battery can be followed through the battle, and that the Park, when fully established, will be a most complete object lesson in war. Rossville via McFarland's Gap to Widow Glenn's... 6.00 Rossville to Kelly's... 4.54 Bragg's Headquarters, Missionary Ridge 3.So De Long's place (Tower)....... 5.50 7.82 Lee and Gordon's to Crawfish Springs Road .97 NOTE. Since the plates for this chapter were electrotyped the Park Commission has purchased 44 acres at the north end of Missionary Ridge, including the Tunnel Hill position defended by Gen. Hardee, and the points assaulted by the Army of the Tennessee under Gen. Sherman. CHAPTER II. THE CHICKAMAUGA CAMPAIGN-GEN. ROSECRANS' STRATEGY. To understand the full value and significance of the military history preserved at the National Park, a study of the campaigns and battles which occurred in and about it becomes necessary. At the opening of the Chickamauga campaign, the objective of which was Chattanooga, Gen. Rosecrans' army lay along the western base of the Cumberland Mountains, while Gen. Bragg's forces held Chattanooga, the south bank of the Tennessee, and the mountain passes. above and below the city. The Union army was composed of three corps of infantry: the Fourteenth, Maj.-Gen. George H. Thomas; the Twentieth, Maj.-Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden; and the Twentyfirst, Maj. Gen. Alexander McD. McCook; and one corps of cavalry, Maj.-Gen. David S. Stanley, Chief of Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland. The Confederate army consisted of three corps of infantry: Polk's Corps, Lieut.-Gen. Leonidas Polk; Hill's Corps, Lieut.-Gen. Daniel H. Hill; and Buckner's Corps, Maj.-Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner; and two corps of cavalry: Forrest's Corps, Brig.-Gen. Nathan B. Forrest; and Wheeler's Corps, Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler. Before Bragg's withdrawal from Chattanooga, he was reinforced by Walker's Corps, mainly from Mississippi; and at the battle of Chickamauga, by Longstreet's Corps, from Virginia. Gen. Rosecrans' Headquarters were at Winchester, where the Twentieth Corps was established. The Fourteenth Corps was at Decherd, and the Twenty-first Corps at |