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Cadet
- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- The Deep South, Alabama
(Used with permission from SOMOS PRIMOS, monthly newsletter of the Society for Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, June 2002 issue, http://www.somosprimos.com/spapr02.htm.)
The Civil War Preservation Trust recently placed the Atlanta site on the top of its list of America's most endangered battlefields, together with more famous sites like Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, WV, and Stones River, TN.
Hundreds of yards of trenches and fortifications, nearly intact since they were built during the siege of Atlanta in 1864 were recently discovered. The discovery of the area, nestled along the Utoy Creek in one of the largest areas of green space left in Atlanta, was a shock. Atlanta's battlefields had been written off in the 1960's, by which time development had paved nearly all of them over, leaving nothing but memorial plaques on the edges of bustling highways. "We all assumed there was nothing left," says local activist Bob Price. "The relic hunters knew it was there, but nobody else gave it a second thought." Extract from article, A More Civil War by Andrew Curry, U.S. News & World Report, pg. 58, 3-11, 2002
The Civil War Preservation Trust recently placed the Atlanta site on the top of its list of America's most endangered battlefields, together with more famous sites like Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, WV, and Stones River, TN.
Hundreds of yards of trenches and fortifications, nearly intact since they were built during the siege of Atlanta in 1864 were recently discovered. The discovery of the area, nestled along the Utoy Creek in one of the largest areas of green space left in Atlanta, was a shock. Atlanta's battlefields had been written off in the 1960's, by which time development had paved nearly all of them over, leaving nothing but memorial plaques on the edges of bustling highways. "We all assumed there was nothing left," says local activist Bob Price. "The relic hunters knew it was there, but nobody else gave it a second thought." Extract from article, A More Civil War by Andrew Curry, U.S. News & World Report, pg. 58, 3-11, 2002
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