HISTORY OF FT. BENNING

Other Areas of Interest to the Military

	Remains of the Civil War Gunboat CSS Chattahoochee.

The Fort Benning and Columbus region have a number of areas of interest to visitors and residents of the area. Some of these are located in Columbus, such as Port Columbus, which is a National Civil War Maritime Museum, while others are located a short drive from Fort Benning. Some other special locations of interest include Andersonville Civil War Prisoner of War Camp, and Andersonville National Prisoner of War Museum, Plains, Georgia, which is home to Jimmy Carter, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Little White House, and the FDR Museum, in Warm Springs, and Fort Mitchell. There are several other Battlefields for visitors and military staff rides within this region to include Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Tallapoosa, AL, Kennesaw Battlefield, Marietta, GA, Chickamauga Battlefield, north Georgia, and others.

	Andersonville National Cemetery

Other information:

The Beginning of Fort Benning

Important National Leaders who Served at Fort Benning

National Infantry Association and the National Infantry Museum

Other Areas of Interest to the Military

Units that have called Fort Benning Home