On September 28, volunteers and outdoor lovers will spread out across the United States to celebrate National Public Lands Day in the places they love best. Celebrated every year since 1994, National Public Lands Day holds the honor of inspiring the most American volunteers for a single-day effort. According to the National Park Service, the day “celebrates the connection between people and green space in their community, inspires environmental stewardship, and encourages use of open space for education, recreation, and general health.”

Our National Park System contains thousands of monuments commemorating people or events connected to the Civil War, but one of those memorials has an unusual reconciliation theme. It's located in the country's oldest national military park, which is also said by some to be the site of one of "the most noted battles of the modern world." Can you name this unit of the National Park System?

Like almost any other site commemorating the Civil War, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park features hundreds of monuments and markers, and many of them bear the likeness of individual soldiers. If you've ever wondered about the stories behind these faces, you can join a special walking and driving tour at the park on Saturday, August 23.

A long lost section of road used during the removal of Cherokee and Creek Indians from Tennessee to the Oklahoma Territory nearly 200 years ago has been found at the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.