Georgia Civil War Map: 29 Battlefields, Forts and Historic Sites

Georgia saw some of the Civil War’s defining campaigns: the Battle of Chickamauga, the 1864 Atlanta Campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah. This map numbers the battlefields, forts, museums and historic homes you can visit around the state. Click a number for that site’s write-up, or use the directory below.

Georgia Historic Sites — Click a number on the map to jump to that site on our Georgia Civil War sites page. Sites 5, 14 to 16 and 31 to 34 are clustered around Atlanta; see the Metro Atlanta Civil War map.

Civil War Sites Directory

Numbers match the map above. Hours and fees change, so check each site before you go.

#	Site	Town	What’s there
1	Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park	Fort Oglethorpe	The nation’s first national military park; visitor center at 3370 LaFayette Rd.
2	Dug Gap Battle Park	Dalton	Hilltop breastworks from fights in February and May 1864
3	Pickett’s Mill Battlefield	Dallas	State historic site; one of the best-preserved Civil War battlefields
4	Gilgal Church Battle Site	Kennesaw	Historical markers at the June 15, 1864, crossroads fight
6	Fort Tyler	West Point	Restored earthwork fort, site of an April 16, 1865, battle
7	Old Fort Jackson	Savannah	Brick fort on the Savannah River
8	Fort Pulaski National Monument	Tybee Island	Masonry fort breached by rifled cannon in 1862
9	Fort McAllister	Richmond Hill	Earthwork fort that fell at the end of Sherman’s March to the Sea
10	Ringgold Depot	Ringgold	Western & Atlantic depot still scarred by shell fire
11	Tunnel Hill and Clisby Austin House	Tunnel Hill	Railroad tunnel of Great Locomotive Chase fame
12	Cassville	Cassville (Bartow Co.)	Burned town site and Confederate cemetery
13	Barnsley Gardens	Adairsville	Ruins of the Barnsley manor, now part of a resort
17	Jarrell Plantation	Juliette	State historic site; a farm that survived the March to the Sea
18	Cannonball House	Macon	Greek Revival house struck by a Union cannonball in 1864
19	Bellevue (Benjamin Harvey Hill House)	LaGrange	Home of Confederate senator Ben Hill
20	Columbus Iron Works	Columbus	Confederate naval iron works, now a convention center
21	Madison	Madison	Antebellum town spared on the March to the Sea
22	Old Governor’s Mansion	Milledgeville	Georgia’s wartime capital; Sherman’s headquarters
23	A.H. Stephens State Park	Crawfordville	Home of the Confederate vice president
24	Confederate Powder Works chimney	Augusta	All that remains of the Confederacy’s gunpowder plant
25	Augusta Arsenal	Augusta	Arsenal grounds, now Augusta University’s Summerville campus
26	Robert Toombs House	Washington	Home of the Confederacy’s first secretary of state; open Thu to Sat
27	Green-Meldrim House	Savannah	Sherman’s Savannah headquarters, December 1864
28	Andersonville National Historic Site	Andersonville	Prison site, national cemetery and National Prisoner of War Museum
29	Allatoona Lake visitor center	Cartersville	Corps of Engineers center near the Cooper’s Iron Works site
30	Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History	Kennesaw	Home of the locomotive General
35	Washington Historical Museum	Washington	House museum with Jefferson Davis’s field desk
36	National Civil War Naval Museum	Columbus	Ironclad remains and naval history, 1002 Victory Dr.
37	Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site	Irwinville (Fitzgerald)	Where Davis was captured in May 1865; run by Irwin County

Living HistoryReenactments at many sites

Planning a drive? Download our printable Georgia highway map (PDF), or browse all Georgia Civil War sites and the Atlanta Civil War sites map.

Sources we checked

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Georgia Civil War Sites Map

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