LaFayette Road

The LaFayette Road is found in Northwest Georgia in the counties of Walker and Catoosa. The road, approximately 20 miles in length, leads from the Tennessee-Georgia state line in Rossville southward to the city of LaFayette. The present day U.S. Highway 27 and U.S. Highway Business 27 contains part of the original roadbed. Old U.S. Highway 27 also follows the road in the city of Fort Oglethorpe and in the community of Rock Spring.

During the American Civil War, the dirt road was fought over by the Confederate Army of Tennessee (under Braxton Bragg) and the Federal Army of the Cumberland (under William S. Rosecrans) during the Battle of Chickamauga on September 19 and 20, 1863. The Federal troops defended the road from the west while the Confederates attacked from the east. In early 1864, Gen. James B. McPherson's Federal troops marched southward on the road from Rossville to Rock Spring during the Atlanta Campaign.