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Once again, since I seem to have logged on before @Jimklag I'll start off this week's Monument Monday with the largest monument at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Georgia, the Illinois State Monument located at the Dead Angle on Cheatham Hill. The Illinoisans who wished to record and commemorate their service here essentially began the current park when they purchased several acres around the end of the Nineteenth Century and erected their monument on the brow of the hill they had striven to capture during the June 27, 1864 assault. Since then the park has grown remarkably, although it is now unfortunately engulfed by the urban sprawl of metro Atlanta and Marietta.
The Illinois Monument is a large monolith featuring a statuary group on the front, actually facing away from the Confederate position at the Dead Angle behind it.
The text on the rear describes the unsuccessful Federal attack; the scene below, taken from just in front of the Confederate works, looks out over the field crossed by the Illinoisans and other troops of Col. Daniel McCook's Federal brigade in the assault.
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