Kennesaw Mountain Visitor Center

[Championhilz]

It's taken me a week, but here are my photos of the Kennesaw Mountain Visitor Center - if you are ever in the area, it is well worth the time!

 

[Championhilz]

More pictures of the Visitor Center:

 

[LCYingling3rd]

Awesome post! It really does look like a fantastic collection of artifacts! I loved seeing all the flags and uniforms being so well preserved! I enjoyed seeing everything, but seeing so many fabrics items seems rare to me. The weapons collection was exceptional as well. I will have to make the trip sometime. Thanks!

 

[Rusk County Avengers]

Nice place. Very nice artifact collection.

 

[rebel brit]

Great pics. Our group were there last Saturday and the place was heaving with Joggers. Did you get a chance to visit Cheatham's Hill.

 

[JOHN42768]

Thanks for posting. Great photos

 

[Drew]

Our group last week was walked through the museum at the Visitors Center Museum by a man with over 50 years' experience as a volunteer at Kennesaw. He in fact introduced us to family who worked there for the National Park Service. One of the things he showed us is that the cannon, below, has a picture of it beneath. Historians were able to "blow up" the picture and read the serial number at the mouth of the cannon.

The numbers match the piece in the museum at Kennesaw and it is almost unheard of to place a piece of artillery to where it was actually used. A real treasure.

 

[donna]

We went there a few years ago. Well worth the visit.

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

Have they improved the lighting? When I visited they were so concerned about light damage to the artifacts much of the exhibit hall was kept dark enough I had trouble reading the text.

Definitely go during the week. On the weekends the park gets overrun early with joggers.

 

[G Low]

Great photos thanks for posting them, it makes me want to visit again. I believe the General is close by in a museum in Kennesaw.

 

[Will Carry]

Thank you Mr. Champion, I have stood where rebout #4 was in Nashville and I have walked where Spanish Fort was in Alabama, but I have never been to Kenesaw Mountain. I always seem to be in a hurry to get past Hotlanta. My great Grandfather, Isaac Mason lied about his age to join Lumsden's Battery. He met the battery during the AoT retreat from Stones River. Maybe one day I will be able to visit the battlefield park at Kenesaw Moutain. Until then you photos will do just fine.

 

[Kathy the history sleuth]

I loved Kennesaw. These are wonderful pictures of the museum.

 

[Rhea Cole]

One of the joys of being an NPS living history volunteer is spending the night camped on top of Kennesaw Mountain. On clear nights you can see until your eyes quit working. You look down on airplanes passing by. For my wife & I who have had a special interest in the Signal Corps / Signal Service taking in the unlimited sweep where the Kennesaw Station was is especially gratifying.

In an area not open to the public there is a stretch of trench line that looks like it was dug yesterday. There was a wet period followed by a drought when the works were being dug by gangs of slaves. Cumberlanders wrote home that they knew that Johnston was preparing to fall back because they could hear the gangs singing & chanting as they prepared the new trenches.

The red clay dried out & set like cement. The tool marks are visible on the sides & the occasional rock have pick marks. Obviously, this is something that could not withstand visitor traffic, so it restricted to preserve it.

There is something special about waking up to the smell of a fire for coffee surrounded by a white fog. Everything is covered in fingernail sized dewdrops. Ignoring the volunteers shaking the dew off, deer & turkeys forage almost within arms length. Pulling on a sack coat reeking of black powder smoke certainly brings a certain perspective to stretching out the kinks left from sleeping on the Hallowed Ground… to put it politely.

 

[G Low]

That is so cool. If you look towards Stone Mountain, the next mountain east is Alcovy Mountain. My back yard.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

There is something special about waking up to the smell of a fire for coffee surrounded by a white fog.

Lord yes !

Although I'm not a living historian or reenactor, primitive camping has aways been a favorite pastime for me.

they knew that Johnston was preparing to fall back

Well ... Johnston was famous for that.
It was always his first choice.

 

[JerryD]

How new is that? Looks like a pretty great collection, and especially impressed with how well preserved so much of the uniforms are.

When I went (a long time ago) it wasn't there. If anyone does got to Kennesaw, I suggest you take Sam Watkins Company Aytch and go to the point of the USA attack and read Watkin's post about the battle. You can practically stand where he stood and see where the trenches were, where the USA troops were, and imagine the dead laying in the summer heat, giving rise to the truce to bury them. You can even see the entrance to the mine that Watkins referred to that US troops started after the battle.

 

[G Low]

How new is that? Looks like a pretty great collection, and especially impressed with how well preserved so much of the uniforms are.

When I went (a long time ago) it wasn't there. If anyone does got to Kennesaw, I suggest you take Sam Watkins Company Aytch and go to the point of the USA attack and read Watkin's post about the battle. You can practically stand where he stood and see where the trenches were, where the USA troops were, and imagine the dead laying in the summer heat, giving rise to the truce to bury them. You can even see the entrance to the mine that Watkins referred to that US troops started after the battle.

Is there a depiction of this particular scene? If not AI might could do it. It would be astonishing to see the thousands soldiers fighting and all the dead. I wonder how much lead is in that mountain?

 

[G Low]

The flag of the Cherokee Dragoons of Phillips Legion is in the visitor center. My Avatar was in the Calvary. Although his unit was formed just up the road in Cherokee County Georgia it never fought in the Kennesaw Mountain battle.

It is a two sided flag