My great grandfather, Ezekiel K. Schwartz, was 2nd Lt., 115th Illinois Volunteers. As part of General Gordon Granger’s Reserve Corps, General Walter Whitaker’s Brigade, they came to the aid of General George Thomas’ troops on Horseshoe Ridge at Chickamauga. I have been there several times, and it always fills me with a sense of awe. That was especially true on September 20, 2008, when I walked the exact ground where they fought 145 years earlier, at the exact time of the afternoon. I stayed for about 2 hours, until the time they withdrew. I placed flowers on the Illinois monument with a card on which I had written the names of the 115th men killed and wounded that day.