{"id":1407,"date":"2013-11-03T19:06:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2013-11-03T19:06:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:06:52","slug":"chickamauga-and-chattanooga-national-military-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/chch\/\">Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park<\/a>\u00a0(Georgia, Tennessee)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1863, Union and Confederate forces fought for control of Chattanooga, the gateway to the deep south. The Confederate\u2019s were victorious at nearby Chickamauga in September, but renewed fighting in Chattanooga in November gave Union troops final control. The 5,200 acre Chickamauga Battlefield, scene of the last major Confederate victory of the Civil War, contains numerous monuments, historical tablets, wayside exhibits, and trails. The 3,000 acre Lookout Mountain Battlefield contains monuments, historical markers, trails, and scenic vistas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amy\u00a0<\/strong>recommends the Chickamauga Battlefield: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been to this place after dark and I can&#8217;t explain the rush I get when I go there. I feel like someone is watching me and a feeling of great despair comes over me. I absolutely love it!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park\u00a0(Georgia, Tennessee) In 1863, Union and Confederate forces fought for control of Chattanooga, the gateway to the deep south. The Confederate\u2019s were victorious at nearby Chickamauga in September, but renewed fighting in Chattanooga in November &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1407\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[51,68,69,86],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennessee","tag-battlefield","tag-ghosts","tag-haunted","tag-military"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}