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DIRECTIONS From Atlanta, take I-75 north to Exit 350. Travel west on Battlefield Parkway/GA 2 to Fort Oglethorpe. Turn left at the intersection of Battlefield Parkway and Lafayette Road. Travel 1 mile on Lafayette Road to the park entrance and visitor center, which is on the right. The memorial trail begins at the edge of the lower parking area.

FACILITIES/TRAILHEAD Restrooms and a gift shop are available at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center, which is open daily (except Christmas Day) from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

At the east side of the visitor center’s lower parking area, take the path that runs between two trees (Waypoint 1). Just before the wood footbridge, turn left onto the Red Trail and walk beneath the Lafayette Road overpass. Skirt the left side of the field, and look to your left. This dense forest choked with trees and underbrush resembles what the soldiers had to wade through during the battle. At 0.2 mile, the trail leaves the field and enters the forest.

Walk past a line of stone Georgia Regiment markers and turn left on the Red Trail. As you turn, ahead on the left is a monument that looks like a stack of cannonballs; it marks the place where Col. Peyton Colquitt was mortally wounded while commanding the 46th Georgia Infantry Regiment. He was the brother of Alfred Holt Colquitt, who was governor of Georgia from 1876 to 1882.