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Monument to the Fallen

Union Veterans erect 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...

Union Veterans erect 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....

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The Assault Falters

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...

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...

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Colonel Dan

Col. Daniel McCook, Jr., a former law partner of Sherman's before the Civil War, saw the adverse odds facing his troops and recited an ancient Greek poem, Horatius' Speech, to his men before the...

Col. Daniel McCook, Jr., a former law partner of Sherman's before the Civil War, saw the adverse odds facing his troops and recited an ancient Greek poem, Horatius' Speech, to his men before the...

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The Dead Angle

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...

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...

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Field Fortification

Confederate engineers and work crews started digging earthworks around the Kennesaw Mountain a few days before the army fell back to this position on June 19. For the next week Southern soldiers...

Confederate engineers and work crews started digging earthworks around the Kennesaw Mountain a few days before the army fell back to this position on June 19. For the next week Southern soldiers...

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Camouflaged Cannons

Tennessee cannoneers positioned two 12 pounder howitzers within this redoubt. Major Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham ordered these artillery crews to camouflage the earthen mounds with cut underbrush and...

Tennessee cannoneers positioned two 12 pounder howitzers within this redoubt. Major Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham ordered these artillery crews to camouflage the earthen mounds with cut underbrush and...

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Climax at Cheatham Hill

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....

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...

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Harker's Attack

Brig. Gen. Charles G. Harker rode into mounted on a white horse while leading a column of eight Union regiments. In previous battles, Harker had four horse killed under him but escaped injury....

Brig. Gen. Charles G. Harker rode into mounted on a white horse while leading a column of eight Union regiments. In previous battles, Harker had four horse killed under him but escaped...

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Clash at Kennesaw

The National Battlefield Park commemorates the Civil War battle fought here and the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. June 27, 1864, dawned hot and muggy. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's 100,000-man Union...

The National Battlefield Park commemorates the Civil War battle fought here and the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. June 27, 1864, dawned hot and muggy. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's 100,000-man...

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United Distributors

Founded in Atlanta in 1940, United Distributors exemplifies the entrepreneurialism that characterized Georgia business during the twentieth century. With the repeal of prohibition in 1933, the...

Founded in Atlanta in 1940, United Distributors exemplifies the entrepreneurialism that characterized Georgia business during the twentieth century. With the repeal of prohibition in 1933, the...

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Leo Frank Lynching

Near this location on August 17, 1915, Leo M. Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, was lynched for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory...

Near this location on August 17, 1915, Leo M. Frank, the Jewish superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, was lynched for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a...

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Riverview Carousel

RIVERVIEW CAROUSEL CONSTRUCTED 1908 HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with...

RIVERVIEW CAROUSEL CONSTRUCTED 1908 HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with...

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Nesbitt-Union Chapel

Nesbitt-Union Chapel Ruins c. 1880 In 1886, Mr. & Mrs. R.T. Nesbitt sold Union Chapel to the church´s trustees. The deed specified it was to be used by all Christian denominations and by schools...

Nesbitt-Union Chapel Ruins c. 1880 In 1886, Mr. & Mrs. R.T. Nesbitt sold Union Chapel to the church´s trustees. The deed specified it was to be used by all Christian denominations and by...

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Marietta Campground

Marietta Campground The campground was established in 1837 at the recommendation of a Methodist "circuit rider" who traveled to serve many churches. The original 40-acre site was purchased for...

Marietta Campground The campground was established in 1837 at the recommendation of a Methodist "circuit rider" who traveled to serve many churches. The original 40-acre site was purchased for...

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Main Confederate Battle Line

Main Confederate Battle Line June 1 - 17, 1864 About a hundred yards southeast of this marker is the remnant of a 15 mile line of Confederate fortifications. These infantry trenches were occupied...

Main Confederate Battle Line June 1 - 17, 1864 About a hundred yards southeast of this marker is the remnant of a 15 mile line of Confederate fortifications. These infantry trenches were occupied...

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Historic Dickson House

Historic Dickson House c. 1841 Facing demolition, this house was relocated here in 2005 from its original site on the battlefield at Gilgal Church in west Cobb County. On 1864 military maps, it...

Historic Dickson House c. 1841 Facing demolition, this house was relocated here in 2005 from its original site on the battlefield at Gilgal Church in west Cobb County. On 1864 military maps, it...

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Cherokee Land Lottery

Cherokee Land Lottery Oct. 1832 - Apr. 1833 In 1803, Georgia established a lottery as the fairest means of distributing land to common farmers. After gold was discovered in 1828 near Dahlonega,...

Cherokee Land Lottery Oct. 1832 - Apr. 1833 In 1803, Georgia established a lottery as the fairest means of distributing land to common farmers. After gold was discovered in 1828 near...

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Captain Peter Simonson 5th Indiana Battery

Acting chief of artillery for the 1st Division (4th Army Corps), Simonson on June 16, 1864 was busy entrenching here a 4-gun battery of artillery when he was killed by a Confederate bullet. The...

Acting chief of artillery for the 1st Division (4th Army Corps), Simonson on June 16, 1864 was busy entrenching here a 4-gun battery of artillery when he was killed by a Confederate bullet....

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Collins Springs Primitive Baptist Church c. 1866

Founded circa 1850, the original church was destroyed in 1864 by the Federal Army and rebuilt after the Civil War. The church, cemetery and nearby spring carry the name of James A. Collins, an...

Founded circa 1850, the original church was destroyed in 1864 by the Federal Army and rebuilt after the Civil War. The church, cemetery and nearby spring carry the name of James A. Collins, an...

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Site of the Dickson House - June 15, 1864

Late in the day General Butterfield´s division of the Federal XX Army Corps [20th A.C.] fought past the Dickson House intending to assault the Confederate entrenchments at Gilgal Church, 300 yards...

Late in the day General Butterfield´s division of the Federal XX Army Corps [20th A.C.] fought past the Dickson House intending to assault the Confederate entrenchments at Gilgal Church, 300 yards...

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