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Cherokee National Forest
Confederate burial and memorial
Chilhowee Mountain Road, off U.S. 64
Cherokee National Forest
Directions: I-75 Exit 20. Travel hwy 64 towards Clevelend. Travel 6.3 miles. Take the Hwy. 64 East ramp Ocoee. Turn left past the ranger station onto Forest Service Road 77.
There are few better sites in Tennessee that mark the extent of the violence during the Civil War. This lone Confederate memorial sits high on Chilhowee Mountain. It was built to mark the location of a skirmish on Feb. 15, 1865, and the death of Confederate soldiers. The tragic story of the fight and those who died on the mountain is etched into the stone.
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