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|   Camouflaged Cannons-Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park - Marietta
in U.S. Civil War Sites Tennessee cannoneers positioned two 12-pounder howitzers within this redoubt. Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham ordered these artillery crews to camouflage the earthen mounds with cut underbrush and to hold their fire unless attacked. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/24/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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| Historic Earthworks-Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park - Marietta GA in U.S. Civil War Sites The mounds are the remains of earthworks defended by the Confederate Army of Tennessee. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/24/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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| Field Fortifications-Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park - Marietta GA in U.S. Civil War Sites Confederate engineers and work crews started digging earthworks around Kennesaw Mountain a few days before their army fell back to this position on June 19. For the next week Southern soldiers improved their earthwork defenses despite constant rain. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/25/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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| A Humanitarian Act Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park - Marietta GA in U.S. Civil War Sites After each Union assault on June 27, hundreds of casualties were left between the lines. By afternoon, wounded Union soldiers lying helpless near here faced a new danger; flames, started by the battle’s gunfire, crept steadily toward them. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/24/2020 last visited: 10/31/2022 |
 view galleryN0.8 km | Interlocking Defenses-Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield - Marietta GA in U.S. Civil War Sites This artillery redoubt protected part of Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne’s Confederate division. From here Southern trenches zigzagged to the left and right for miles, with cannon batteries placed at key positions. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/24/2020 last visited: 10/31/2022 |
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| Battle of Kolb's Farm - June 22, 1864 - Marietta GA in U.S. Civil War Sites On June 22, 1864, Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston sent Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's 13,000 troops down Powder Springs Road to stop the Federal army's threat to his flank. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/24/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryS2.9 km | Kolb House-Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park - Marietta GA in U.S. Civil War Sites The only surviving structure of about a dozen farms, mills and churches existing within the park at the time of the Civil War. The house sustained light damage during the battle of Kolb’s Farm, June 22, 1864. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/24/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
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| Kennesaw House-Symbol of Marietta's History - Marietta GA in U.S. Civil War Sites On the night of April 11, 1862, Federal agent James J. Andrews of Kentucky, civilian William H. Campbell of Ohio, and eighteen Ohio Federal soldiers dressed as civilians slept here, two others stayed nearby, but oversleep. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/25/2020 last visited: 10/01/2021 |
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| Marietta National Cemetery - Marietta, GA in U.S. Civil War Sites Burying of the Civil War dead, and creation of a National Cemetery System because of it. posted by:  YoSam. location: Georgia date approved: 04/24/2023 last visited: never |
 view galleryN5.5 km | Clash at Kennesaw-Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park - Kennesaw GA in U.S. Civil War Sites June 27, 1864, dawned hot and muggy. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s 100,000-man Union army faced Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s 65,000 Confederates entrenched along an eight mile front from Kennesaw Mountain south. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/24/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryN9.8 km | Locomotive "General" - Kennesaw GA in U.S. Civil War Sites This tablet marks the spot at which the
LOCOMOTIVE "GENERAL" was captured by Andrews' Raiders morning of April 12th, 1862 posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 10/30/2020 last visited: 09/15/2022 |
 view galleryN9.8 km | William A. Fuller - Kennesaw GA in U.S. Civil War Sites As conductor on the state - owned Western & Atlantic R.R. he led the pursuing party that, after a 90-mile chase -- in which three locomotives were used -- recaptured the locomotive General which had been seized at Big Shanty. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 10/30/2020 last visited: 09/15/2022 |
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| Site of the Confederate Commissary – Atlanta, GA. in U.S. Civil War Sites Site of the Confederate Commissary in Atlanta, GA, during the years 1863 – 64. The Candler Building built by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Griggs Candler where John Wesley Dobbs Ave joins Peachtree Street now occupies this location. posted by: Lat34North location: Georgia date approved: 07/04/2010 last visited: 09/14/2022 |
 view gallerySE28.3 km | Transfer of Command - Atlanta GA in U.S. Civil War Sites Under orders from President Davis, on July 17, 1864, General Joseph E. Johnston, the masterful tactician and soldier, relinquished command of the Army of Tennessee. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 10/30/2020 last visited: 09/30/2021 |
 view gallerySE28.3 km | The Seige of Atlanta - Atlanta GA in U.S. Civil War Sites Following these sanguinary Battle of July 22, 1864, enemy entrenched himself to the east and south of Atlanta. Then began the long and fearful seige which, lasting for six weeks, was veritably a reign of terror. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 10/30/2020 last visited: 09/30/2021 |
 view gallerySE28.3 km | The Evacuation of Atlanta - Atlanta GA in U.S. Civil War Sites On July 30, 1864, General Hood, retaining Stewart´s corps in Atlanta, sent Hardee and Lee to Jonesboro to dispossess the enemy whose seizure of the railway at this point was ominous of the approaching end. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 10/31/2020 last visited: 09/30/2021 |
 view galleryNW39.6 km | Historic McKelvey House-Cartersville, Georgia in U.S. Civil War Sites A hidden marker north of Cartersville, Georgia. Decisions made here affected later developments in the war. posted by: Sprinterman location: Georgia date approved: 03/15/2008 last visited: 04/30/2008 |
 view galleryNW41.7 km | Old Cassville Presbyterian Church in U.S. Civil War Sites One of three churches in Cassville, GA. NOT burned by General Sherman in his march to the sea. This church is located on Cassville Road just off US Hwy 41 in Cassville. posted by: Sprinterman location: Georgia date approved: 08/26/2007 last visited: 08/26/2007 |
 view galleryNW46.2 km | First Confederate Hospital of the Civil War in U.S. Civil War Sites Site of the first Confederate Hospital of the Civil War. posted by: Sprinterman location: Georgia date approved: 10/10/2007 last visited: 11/05/2008 |
 view gallerySE50.2 km | Battle of Jonesborough - Jonesboro GA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Battle of Jonesborough (August 31–September 1, 1864) was fought between Union Army forces led by William Tecumseh Sherman and Confederate forces under William J. Hardee during the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/17/2022 last visited: 09/16/2022 |
 view gallerySE50.5 km | Patrick R. Cleburne Cemetery - Jonesboro, GA in U.S. Civil War Sites Confederate Cemetery located in Jonesboro, GA. posted by: SearchN location: Georgia date approved: 04/20/2008 last visited: 09/16/2022 |
 view gallerySE59.9 km | The Crawford-Dorsey House "In The Midst Of Battles" - Hampton GA in U.S. Civil War Sites In late July 1864, the War Between the States had brought action literally to his doorstep. On the morning of July 29, 1864, McCook’s U.S. raiders moved on Lovejoy’s Station. During the raid, Union soldiers paid their first visit to the Dorsey House. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 09/17/2022 last visited: 09/15/2022 |
 view gallerySE60.2 km | The "Right Flank" on the McDonough Road - Hampton GA in U.S. Civil War Sites Confederate Lt. General John Bell Hood, inside the fortifications of Atlanta, realizes that the last remaining railroad line that supplied Atlanta would be cut and Atlanta would have to be abandoned. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 10/30/2020 last visited: 09/24/2021 |
 view gallerySE60.2 km | "The Old Bronze Gentleman of Lovejoy's Station" - Hampton GA in U.S. Civil War Sites Kilpatrick’s troopers were soon surrounded at Lovejoy’s station and they were forced to fall back. Kilpatrick’s cavalry retreated eastward on the McDonough road and reformed on a ridge located just west of Nash farm. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 10/30/2020 last visited: 09/24/2021 |
 view gallerySE60.2 km | Kilpatrick's Raid at the Nash Farm - Hampton GA in U.S. Civil War Sites As the last of Minty’s skirmishers withdrew, Kilpatrick and Eli Murray realign King’s 3rd and 5th Kentucky to confront the quiescent Confederate infantry. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Georgia date approved: 10/30/2020 last visited: 09/24/2021 |
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