To reach Missionary Ridge, after leaving Chickamauga Battlefield, you
should drive north 3 miles toward Chattanooga on U. S. 27 to Crest Road.
A right turn on Crest Road will start you on your tour of the ridge.
Crest Road runs the entire length of the line occupied by the
Confederates during the Battle of Missionary Ridge. Small reservations,
markers, monuments, tablets, and gun positions along the road provide
information, and excellent views of Chattanooga are obtained along this
drive. Moving northward the more important units of the park are: _Bragg
Reservation_, where the Confederate commander had his headquarters;
_Ohio Reservation_, an area set aside to commemorate the participation
of Ohio troops in the battle; _DeLong Reservation_, site of one of the
Union penetrations in the Confederate line; and _Sherman Reservation_,
where Sherman’s forces unsuccessfully attacked the north end of the
Confederate line.
Sherman Reservation marks the end of Crest Road and the park on
Missionary Ridge.
[Illustration: _Looking north along Missionary Ridge with
Chattanooga and Tennessee Rivers to the left, and the Illinois
Monument at Bragg’s Headquarters site in center foreground. This
point is about one-third distance from Rossville to north end of the
ridge._]
[Illustration: _Looking south along Missionary Ridge from DeLong
Reservation._]
[Illustration: CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA
NATIONAL MILITARY PARK
GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE
PRINCIPAL ROADS AND STREETS BETWEEN CHATTANOOGA AND PARK AREAS]
[Illustration: _Entrance to Point Park, Lookout Mountain, built to
resemble Army Corps of Engineers insignia._]