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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N2S_the-dead-angle_Marietta-GA.html
This bend in the Confederate line became the battle's focal point. At 9 a.m. on June 27, 1864, thousands of yelling, blue-clad soldiers charged across the distant field toward the Tennessee soldiers in these earthworks. As the federals came for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N2R_the-assault-falters_Marietta-GA.html
Beaten federals entrenched within 30 yards to the Confederate earthworks. As the Union attack stalled, two surviving Federal colonels hastily discussed retreat. Realizing that withdrawal under heavy fire would invite more bloodshed, they decide…
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Illinois veterans erected this memorial 50 years after the battle. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on July 27, 1864, caused the Union Army estimated 3,000 killed, wounded, or missing soldiers. The Confederates suffered fewer than 1,000 casualti…
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Union Attackers failed to split the Confederate army here. On the morning of June 27, 1864, three brigades totaling 5,500 soldiers from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois charged toward Pigeon Hill. Advancing in battle lines astride Burnt Hickory Road,…
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(front) Illinois Dedicated June 27, 1914 (rear) "Erected To the memory of the Illinois Soldiers who died on the battlefield of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, June 27th, 1864. On this field the men of Col. Dan McCooks 3rd brigade, 2nd Di…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N1F_climax-at-cheatham-hill_Marietta-GA.html
Confederate defenders here defeated the main Union assault. On June 27, 1864, more than 8,000 Union infantrymen attacked an equal number of well-entrenched Confederates along this low-lying hill. One Tennessee veteran compared the assault to &q…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L4R_state-of-texas-memorial-for-atlanta-campaign_Marietta-GA.html
(Front Side) 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/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…
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