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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L4R_state-of-texas-memorial-for-atlanta-campaign_Marietta-GA.html
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Texas
remembers the valor and devotion of her sons who served at Cheatham Hill, Kennesaw Mountain, and in other engagements of the Atlanta Campaign in 1864.
Texas units in the campaign were:
6th Texas Inf. & 15th Texas Cav., Dis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JK9_dueling-cannons_Marietta-GA.html
On June 19, Capt. Charles L. Lumsden's Alabama battery on Big Kennesaw Mountain hit a railroad water tower, "scatting both water and nearby Yankees" — lucky shooting for smoothbore Napoleon cannon. But after the Confederates fired at the 1st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JK8_atlanta-prize-of-war_Marietta-GA.html
Sherman aimed for the South's manufacturing and railroad hub.
Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman had two objectives during his Georgia campaign of 1864; defeat the Confederate army, and damage the South's war arsenals. By capturing Atlanta, he …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JK6_the-atlanta-campaign_Marietta-GA.html
Sherman marched south to fight the Confederate army and seize its supply center.
In May 1864, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman led his 100,000-man army from Chattanooga, Tennessee, into Georgia. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's 65,000 troops dug in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUK_kennesaw-house_Marietta-GA.html
Also known as the "Fletcher House," this building was originally built in 1845 as a cotton warehouse by Marietta's first mayor, John H. Glover. Dix Fletcher purchased it in 1855, and after remodeling he opened it as a hotel. Located next to train …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUJ_kolb-house_Marietta-GA.html
This hewn log house, built about 1836 by a pioneer settler, Peter Valentine Kolb, is the only surviving structure of about a dozen farms, mills and churches existing within the park at the time of the Civil War. The house sustained light damage du…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BU4_field-fortifications_Marietta-GA.html
Confederate engineers and work crews started digging earthworks around Kennesaw Mountain a few days before their army fell back to this position on June 19. For the next week Southern soldiers improved their earthwork defenses despite constant rai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BU3_camouflaged-cannons_Marietta-GA.html
Tennessee cannoneers positioned two 12-pounder howitzers within this redoubt. Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham ordered these artillery crews to camouflage the earthen mounds with cut underbrush and to hold their fire unless attacked. For the next we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BTX_a-humanitarian-act_Marietta-GA.html
After each Union assault on June 27, hundreds of casualties were left between the lines. By afternoon, wounded Union soldiers lying helpless near here faced a new danger; flames, started by the battle's gunfire, crept steadily toward them.
Lt. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BTN_interlocking-defenses_Marietta-GA.html
This artillery redoubt protected part of Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne's Confederate division. From here Southern trenches zigzagged to the left and right for miles, with cannon batteries placed at key positions. These defense lines could produce …