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I'm heading to Atlanta next May so I look forward to visiting some of these sites
Be very patient and bring great maps!
Bill
I'm heading to Atlanta next May so I look forward to visiting some of these sites
There is a book titled Walking the Line by Dr. Lawrence Krumenaker that is one of the best then/now books about the Atlanta Fortifications themselves.I'm heading to Atlanta next May so I look forward to visiting some of these sites
Oh you sweet, summer child. If only you knew...I'm heading to Atlanta next May so I look forward to visiting some of these sites
These are very interesting photos of important areas for the battle of Atlanta and surrounding areas. No one in the Atlanta government or county has REQUESTED that statues ,as General Gordon's or other statues or makers be removed or transported to other storage facilities? I have just read a interesting book entitled "North across the River, a civil war Trail of Tears'' , author Ruth Beaumont Cook. It is the event of the cotton mills of Roswell ,Marietta, and Sweetwater Creek. It starts with the mills foundations after the years of the Cherokee ,and Creek force transport from that area of North Georgia then comes the part of the Sherman march which has been forgotten or just overlooked by Northern historians of the war as to what occurred to the women and families that worked in those mills Sherman moves into this area and what he does to the men and women who have worked in the mills of those towns is not mentioned by any historian ,except as a footnote or as a note of just these towns. It flows the events of these people from 1864 thought their return ,for some. to Georgia. The reason that the author calls this a Trail of Tears harpoons to the Trail of Tears of the Indians from Georgia. This is one of those reasons ,not so much for Atlanta or the march to the Sea that Sherman and his the Union army is so remembered so fondly by those in North Georgia and in someway the whole state of Georgia. Maybe one week I shall take a tour of that area. North across the River tells one what happen to these people. The book was copyright righted in 1998, My book came from my Mother whose folks came from South Georgia. This would be a very interesting book club book or tea party book club .ENJOY* Battle of Ezra Church (Mozley Park).
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* Georgia State Capital Building (General Gordon Statue).
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*Oakland Cemetery.
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* Westview Cemetery.
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* Battle of Utoy Creek.
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* Atlanta Cyclorama.
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* Kennesaw Mountain National Cemetery.
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* Marietta Confederate Cemetery.
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* Marietta National Cemetery.
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* Kennesaw House.
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* Battle of Ruff's Mill (near Smyrna).
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* Jonesboro Confederate Cemetery.
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* The Nash Farm Battlefield (near Lovejoy Station).
They forgot the burning part* On September 2nd, 1864, Atlanta Mayor James Calhoun, along with a committee of Federal-leaning citizens including William Markham, Jonathan Norcross, and Edward Rawson, met a captain on the staff of Federal Major General Henry W. Slocum, and surrendered the city, asking for "protection to non-combatants and private property". Federal Major General William T. Sherman, who was in Jonesborough at the time of surrender, sent a telegram to Washington, DC on September 3rd, reading, "Atlanta is ours, and fairly won". He then established his headquarters there on September 7th, where he stayed for over two months. On November 15th, Sherman's army departed east toward Savannah, Georgia on what became known as "Sherman's March to the Sea."
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They forgot the burning part
Who knew Sherman had such a great smile. Hood thought he’d join the fun
Does Atlanta still have the famous Panoramic theater of the battle of Atlanta? That is a must if it is still there.Be very patient and bring great maps!
Bill