{"id":2801,"slug":"chickamauga-battlefield-fort-oglethorpe-georgia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Chickamauga is the second — the bloodiest after Gettysburg, the 34,000 who fell. The 'River of Death' is the translation — the Cherokee name that it carried, the '63 battle that it earned. The Thomas was the Rock — the Horseshoe Ridge that he held, the retreat that he saved.","The gap was the accident — the Rosecrans order that opened the line, the Longstreet charge that poured through. The victory was the hollow — the Bragg who couldn't pursue, the Chattanooga that was the real prize. Chickamauga is the Western — the deadliest in that theater, the park that's the first.","The file keeps Chickamauga: the 1863 battle, the Thomas stand, the gap, and the 34,000 casualties.","Chickamauga is the archive's Georgia file — the River of Death."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Chickamauga is the archive's Georgia file — the second bloodiest.","A battlefield keeps its creek — the file's suggestion being that Chickamauga's hold is the name: the River of Death that it translated, the Thomas who stood, and the 34,000 who fell."]}],"name":"Chickamauga Battlefield","aliases":[],"type":"BATTLEFIELD","type_label":"Battlefield","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","CIVIL_WAR"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","legends"],"desc":"September 1863—the Confederacy’s last great victory, and \"Old Green Eyes.\"","full_desc":"A battlefield in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, Chickamauga Battlefield is filed here for what the record attaches to it. September 1863—the Confederacy’s last great victory, and \"Old Green Eyes.\". HauntHunt files it with the Civil War, dark history and local folklore. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Old Green Eyes. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The ground is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Fort Oglethorpe","county":null,"state":"Georgia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":34.931849,"lon":-85.24601,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site / park","research_notes":"GA/TN batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2460,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Old Green Eyes is the park’s documented legend. A fortification's lore is written in its casualty ledger; Chickamauga Battlefield's ledger gave the reports plenty to work with. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Chickamauga'. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Old Green Eyes","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Chickamauga","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickamauga_and_Chattanooga_National_Military_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2461,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures on Snodgrass Hill and the field. The fort's documented violence is the soil the reports grow in — Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia keeps both on file. It originates in investigator claims — compelling inside the team's log, unverifiable outside it. 'Chickamauga' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Chickamauga","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickamauga_and_Chattanooga_National_Military_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The September 19-20, 1863 battle is documented. The record dates it to 1863-09-19–1863-09-20. The site's documented military history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Chickamauga'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1863-09-19","date_end":"1863-09-20","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Chickamauga","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickamauga_and_Chattanooga_National_Military_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Old Green Eyes is the park’s documented legend. A fortification's lore is written in its casualty ledger; Chickamauga Battlefield's ledger gave the reports plenty to work with. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Chickamauga","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickamauga_and_Chattanooga_National_Military_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Old Green Eyes","claimed_identity":"Old Green Eyes","verified":null,"summary":"Old Green Eyes is the park’s documented legend. Old military ground in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia carries its dead the way it carries its walls — permanently. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is Old Green Eyes. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved. The claim holds its place in the ledger.","behavior":"Old Green Eyes is the park’s documented legend.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Chickamauga","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickamauga_and_Chattanooga_National_Military_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Battlefield site; interpretive trails or markers are typically available. Check the managing agency for hours.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Chickamauga","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickamauga_and_Chattanooga_National_Military_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}