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Monument at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia

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Monument at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Georgia

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Between 1890 and 1899 the Congress of the United States authorized the establishment of the first four national military parks. The first and largest of these, and the one upon which the establishment and development of most other national military and historical parks was based, was Chickamauga and Chattanooga. It owes its existence largely to the efforts of General H.V. Boynton and Ferdinand Van Derveer, both veterans of the Army of the Cumberland, who saw the need for a national park to preserve and commemorate these battlefields during a visit to the area in 1888.

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1890 - 1899
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