Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
900 Kennesaw Mountain Dr., Kennesaw, GA 30152
(770) 427-4686
In
June of 1864, General William T. Sherman's advance toward Atlanta was
delayed for two weeks at Kennesaw Mountain, just west of downtown
Marietta. The Union Army, marching from Chattanooga to Marietta along
the Western and Atlantic Railroad, was met by the Confederates
entrenched along the ridgetops of Kennesaw Mountain, south towards
Powder Springs Road, thereby blocking Union movement. The 2,888 acre
National Park preserves the battleground where the Confederate army
temporarily stopped the Union advance southward before the fall of
Atlanta.
8:30am-5:00pm Daily
http://www.nps.gov/kemo
Marietta City Cemetery395 Powder Springs Street, Marietta, GA 30060
Established
in the 1830's, the Marietta City Cemetery stands today as a monument to
the many people who built our community. It serves as the final resting
place for a broad cross-section of the community's earliest residents
including former mayors, children, and influential citizens. One of the
largest single plots in the cemetery is the Old Slave Lot. At the time,
no other major cemetery in Georgia had a lot devoted to the burial of
slaves or free people of African descent. The Marietta City Cemetery
continues to provide a valuable opportunity for residents and visitors
to learn more about the city's storied history.
http://www.mariettaga.gov/departments/parks_rec/cemeteries.aspx |
Marietta Confederate Cemetery395 Powder Springs Street, Marietta, GA 30060
(770) 794-5606
Started
in 1863 when Mrs. Jane Porter Glover donated a corner of her plantation
for the burial of 20 Confederate soldiers who died in a train wreck,
the Marietta Confederate Cemetery is the final resting place for more
than 3000 soldiers. Every Confederate State is represented, as well as
Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri, and the cemetery remains the largest
Confederate Cemetery south of Richmond. A large number of the buried
soldiers fought nearby in The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain and The
Battle of Kolb's Farm.
http://www.mariettaga.gov/departments/parks_rec/cemeteries.aspx#3
Marietta National Cemetery
500 Washington Avenue, Marietta, GA 30060
(770) 428-5631 (866) 236-8159
With
the death toll rising rapidly during the Civil War, the idea to bury
the dead in national cemeteries was conceived in 1862, and this
cemetery was created in 1866. Henry Greene Cole, a prominent Marietta
resident proposed the idea for the Marietta National Cemetery, and
offered a few acres of land near downtown. The cemetery was to contain
the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers; however federal
officials did not want Confederate dead to be buried near Yankee dead.
Over 17,000 men are buried here, and more than 3,000 are unknown. Many
died during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, and a total of 10,072 died
during the Civil War.
Mon-Fri 8am-4:30pm
http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/marietta.asp |
