Vicksburg National Military Park Located in Vicksburg, MS TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Preserving Our Cultural Resources: photos by G.Zeman IN BRIEF Welcome to the Vicksburg National Military Park website. Please click the In Depth link at right for detailed information about the park, including on-line tours, photographs, historical records, battles, ...
Gettysburg National Military Park Located in Gettysburg, PA TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS The battlefield of Gettysburg from Little Round Top (National Park Service) IN BRIEF Located 50 miles northwest of Baltimore, the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was the site of the largest Civil War battle ever waged in the Western Hemisphere. The Battle of ...
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Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park Located in Fort Oglethorpe, GA TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Between 1890 and 1899 the Congress of the United States authorized the establishment of the first four national military parks: Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Shiloh, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg. The first and largest of these, ...
Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park Located in Fredericksburg, VA TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Hazel Grove at Chancellorsville (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Approximately 110, 000 casualties occurred during the four major battles fought in the vicinity of Fredericksburg, Virginia making it the bloodiest ground on the North American continent. In ...
Shiloh National Military Park Located in Shiloh, TN TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Confederate Monument--South is surrendering the laurel wreath of victory back to Death and Night. (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Shiloh National Military Park was established in 1894 to preserve the scene of the first major battle in the Western theater of the Civil War. The two-day ...
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park Located in Greensboro, NC TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF The battle fought here on March 15, 1781, was the largest, most hotly-contested action of the Revolutionary War's climactic Southern Campaign. The serious loss of British manpower suffered at Guilford Courthouse foreshadowed final ...
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park Located near Daviston, AL TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Horseshoe Bend of the Tallapoosa River Photo Courtesy of Eastern National IN BRIEF On the morning of 27 March 1814, General Andrew Jackson and an army of 3, 300 men consisting of Tennessee militia, United States regulars and both Cherokee and Lower Creek allies ...
