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Ringgold is a city located in Catoosa county in northern Georgia. ... There is a gap about one hundred yards wide, and half a mile east of Ringgold, where the battle happened. That is how it became known as The Battle of Ringgold Gap. ... In eighteen sixty two through eighteen sixty three, Ringgold was the site of many hospitals. ...
The Battle of Ringgold Gap began when General Braxton Bragg’s Confederate army, the Army of Tennessee passed through on the 26th and the 27th. ... Rosecran’s Union army at Chickamauga, nine miles west of Ringgold. ... Bragg, knowing the union was following him, ordered Brigadier General Patrick Cleburne to take a stand in Ringgold Gap and stall Hooker’s army. He received orders from Bragg a few hours after midnight by a courier to position his command in Ringgold Gap and hold it at all costs until he was notified that the army’s wagons had gotten away safely.
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