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Crawfish Spring in Chickamauga, Georgia, was a vital site from the Cherokee era through white settlement and the Civil War because of its abundant, dependable water. The Cherokee built their Chickamauga District courthouse beside the spring around 1800, and after their forced removal James Gordon established a plantation there in 1840. In September 1863, Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans used the property as headquarters and the spring supplied his army while the site also became a crowded field hospital. Confederate cavalry under Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler captured it on September 20, taking medical supplies and about 1,000 wounded Union soldiers. Later reunions there helped inspire creation of Chickamauga battlefield as the nation’s first Military Park.
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Chickamauga, Georgia · United States
