Only Gettysburg was bloodier than the Battle of Chickamauga that ended in northwest Georgia on this day in 1863. Three months earlier, the United States Army had begun a strategy to capture Chattanooga, a major railroad hub and gateway to the Deep South. General William Rosecrans’ U.S. Army of the Cumberland, and General Braxton Bragg’s […]
On this day in 1964, sculptors began taking a third crack at the Confederate Memorial Carving on Stone Mountain, first proposed 50 years earlier by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Renowned sculptor Gutzon Borglum envisioned seven central figures leading an army of thousands. But World War I and funding problems delayed work. Artistic disagreements […]
