Crossing the Ocmulgee

Historical marker location:

Jackson, Georgia

( Marker is on West 3rd Street (U.S. 23) 0 miles west of Mulberry Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1957

The largest land battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Chickamauga, took place in Georgia in 1863. Over 34,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing in the battle.