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  New Georgia Encyclopedia: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
On June 27, 1864, Kennesaw Mountain, located about twenty miles northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, became the scene for one of the Atlanta Campaign's major actions in the U.S. Civil War (1861-65).
These fears were allayed at Kennesaw Mountain in late June, where Sherman believed that his opponent had finally made a mistake and that a well-executed attack could crush the Army of Tennessee and open the way to Atlanta.
Indeed, the Confederates were arranged in a large semicircle that stretched eight miles from Kolb's Farm in the south to Kennesaw Mountain in the north.
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 Battle of Kennesaw Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Battle of Kenesaw Mountain [sic], by Kurz and Allison, 1891.
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.
The main participants in the battle were the Union armies under the command of Gen. William T. Sherman and the Army of Tennessee under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.
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 goingsolo Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
Kennesaw Mountain was the site of two of the Civil War battles fought during June, 1864 during General Sherman's March to the Sea.
Kennesaw was the last mountain Sherman and his troops had to cross before reaching Atlanta and theConfederates fought vigorously to defend it.
These two battles were known as the beginning of the end for Georgia in the Civil War as Sherman's campaign culminated in the battle and fall of the city of Atlanta.
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 Battle of ... Mountain - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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 [ Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park -- Hiking in Georgia -- Kennesaw Mountain ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
From the top of Kennesaw Mountain the trail descends into a the gap between the two mountains, then climbs Little Kennesaw.
It was in this area that a secondary attack occurred during The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, 1864.
Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield is a 2,884 acre National Battlefield that preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign.
www.hikingnature.com /hiking_georgia_kennesaw_mountain.shtm   (0 words)

  
 Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Tour, Marietta, Ga.
Further north on the right side of Kennesaw Avenue are the remains of steam-powered grist mill in use after the war.
On your left near the Visitor Center is the area attacked by The Army of the Tennessee during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
The Army of the Tennessee swept across the field on the right and were turned back at the base of the mountain during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
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 cwla - Ezra Church Battle File
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, documenting the battle for Kennesaw Mountain, is one component of the Atlanta Campaign in the Civil War.
After a very short interval, which did not amount to a cessation of the battle, new and largely augmented colunms of the enemy came pouring in upon us, with the same results, however, as before, although their colors were planted within twenty paces.
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 A Needless Waste of Lives - The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June, 1864
Kennesaw Mountain is a high range of hills trending off to the northeast that was covered with chestnut trees, ending with another peak called Brush Mountain.
These mountains form a continuous chain, together having a conical appearance with Pine Mountain forming the apex and Kennesaw and Lost Mountains the base of a triangle, covering the town of Marietta, Georgia.
General McPherson was watching the enemy on Kennesaw and working his left forward; Thomas swinging, as it were, on a grand left wheel, his left on Kennesaw connecting with McPherson; and General Schofield's corps working to the south and east, along the old Sandtown road.
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 Preserve America Community: Kennesaw, Georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kennesaw, Georgia, has a population of 22,000 residents and is located northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County.
The railroad is integral to the community's history and, in March 2003, the City of Kennesaw and the Kennesaw Museum Foundation opened the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History.
Kennesaw is an active participant in the Blue and Gray Trail, a regional heritage tourism driving tour that focuses on the many dramatic events that occurred in the area during the Civil War.
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 Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
It is this concern that causes General William Tecumseh Sherman to launch a full-scale frontal assault on the entrenched position of General Joseph Eggleston Johnston's Rebels at Kennesaw Mountain.
John Scofield's Army of the Ohio holds the southern end of the line, George Thomas' Army of the Cumberland the middle, and John McPherson's Army of the Tennessee the northern end, west and north of Kennesaw Mountain.
During the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain artillery shells began to land near the house and he evacuated the home.
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 Kennesaw Mountain National Military Park, Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, west of Marietta, Georgia, was the site of two major battles of the War Between the States (Civil War).
These battles, known as the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was the worst defeat of the Union Army during the Atlanta Campaign.
Obviously, if you are travelling and come to Kennesaw Mountain, you are probably there because of the Civil War battles that were fought along the 8-mile length of the park.
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Pine Mountain Middle School was named for the Civil War battle which took place just northwest of the school on the nearby mountain slope.
Pine Mountain, the highest point between Lost and Kennesaw Mountains, was fortified by the Confederates and was used as an outpost of the main Confederate line.
The Union army used the mountain as an observatory during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
www.cobb.k12.ga.us /~pinemountain/history.htm   (0 words)

  
 Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield - Sightseeing pictures on Worldisround
Sightseeing - travel photos - The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in June of 1864 was a bloody attempt to stop Sherman from...
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in June of 1864 was a bloody attempt to stop Sherman from taking Atlanta.
I felt that so much blood was shed there that the souls of the troops who died were bound to the mountain, much the same as I felt when I was at Gettysburg as a child.
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 Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, fought here between General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union army and Joseph E. Johnston of the Confederate army, took place between June 18, 1864 and July 2, 1864.
Established as Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Site on February 8, 1917, it was transferred from the War Department on August 10, 1933, and redesignated a national battlefield park on June 26, 1935.
With the expansion of urban sprawl from nearby Atlanta, Georgia, concerns have been raised that the preserved areas of the park may be in danger from overuse and misuse.
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 Burnt Hickory Loop - GeorgiaTrails.com
Dedicated on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, the massive structure allows access to the top of Kennesaw Mountain, where the Burnt Hickory Trail continues to climb past defensive arrrays of artillery.
From the top of Kennesaw Mountain the trail begins with a difficult descent into a the gap between Big Kennesaw and Little Kennesaw, crossing Mountain Road at a wide point in the road with a couple of parking places and an interpretive marker.
While the main thrust of the Union attack on June 27, 1864 was in the area of Cheatham Hill, it was at Pigeon Hill that a secondary attack occurred during The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
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 Kennesaw Battlefield Park Opens New Museum
The ribbon-cutting for the museum was the culmination of a 10-year process that saw the community-based Friends of the Park group raise more than $500,000 and Congress come up with the rest of the funding for the $2.5 million expansion of the visitors' center and replacement of the museum.
It was replaced with a new center in time for the battle's centennial in 1964, but that center had long been outmoded and was overwhelmed by visitors by the early 1990s.
The Kennesaw Mountain park is visited by well over a million people a year and consistently has ranked in the top two or three battlefield parks in the nation each year in terms of visitation in the past decade.
www.civilwarnews.com /archive/articles/new_kennesaw_mus.htm   (0 words)

  
 Kennesaw Mountain Georgia Civil War Battle American
The northern face of the mountain is a perpendicular cliff nearly fifty stories tall.
From the first conflict under General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Murfreesboro in 1862 to the desperate and often brutal battles with Union cavalry in the Carolinas during 1865, the Second Georgia was almost constantly in action.
The Kennesaw Mountain Southern Red Oak stands in a 2,883-acre national park northwest of Atlanta, Georgia.
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 The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain - The Battles - Cheatham Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain - The Battles - Cheatham Hill
South of Newton's battle, meantime, the hot-tempered Union general with the coincidental same name as the Confederacy's president, Jefferson C. Davis, also advanced two brigades, holding one back.
They grimly named the place where they had struggled the "Dead Angle." For them, in their experience, Kennesaw Mountain was the toughest single battle of the Civil War.
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 Kennesaw Mountain Road - GeorgiaTrails.com
One of the first sights along this road is the impressive Georgia monument, dedicated to the state's men who fought at The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
This overlook was added in 1964, on the 100th anniversary of the battle and a refurbishing was completed in February, 1998.
The trail continues to the crest of the mountain, past an artillery embankment.
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 Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Marietta, Georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On June 22, 1864, and again on June 27, 1864, major battles in The War Between The States (American Civil War) were fought just west of downtown Marietta.
Spreading south just west of the ridge, Union General John Schofield's Army of the Ohio tried to turn the southern end of the Confederate's Kennesaw Mountain line, as Sherman had done at Resaca and Dalton.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is one of the most popular in the National Park System.
www.mariettasquare.com /kennesaw_mountain.html   (0 words)

  
 MDJonline.com - Marietta, Georgia
Remnants from the 1864 Civil War battles in Cobb are evident as portions of the four main Confederate defense lines remain visible today.
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, the largest and bloodiest battle in Cobb County, took place June 27, 1864, when Gen. William T. Sherman's Union forces encountered Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate entrenchments.
But in contrast to most battles fought during the war, the campaign stretched from north of Dalton through northwest Georgia into Jonesboro south of Atlanta, covering vast amounts of territory that is not protected.
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 Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kennesaw Mountain, west of Marietta, is authorized by Congress to become a memorial to the men who died in the Civil War battle
Secretary of the Interior declares Kennesaw Mountain NBP as "officially established." (The land acquisition, which had been challenged in court, was approved)
On the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, a granite overlook on Big Kennesaw Mountain is dedicated to the generals in the battle that were born in Georgia
www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /chronpop/2385   (0 words)

  
 Welcome to the City of Kennesaw!
Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield is a 2,888 acre National Battlefield that preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign.
Located on the second floor of the historic Kennesaw House, the Marietta Museum of History houses the city’s extensive historical collections of photographs, artifacts on Marietta and North Georgia.
The Marietta Confederate Cemetary is the final resting place for Confederate soldiers from nearby hospitals and the military operations around Marietta including The Battle of Kolb's Farm and The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
www.kennesaw.ga.us /index.asp?NID=35   (0 words)

  
 Ghosts & Spirits - Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was part of Sherman's Atlanta campaign, and was fought from June 18, 1864, until July 2, 1864.
Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield is known to boast its share of spooks, as does nearly every battlefield.
Visiting battlefields often gives you strange feelings, and Kennesaw is no exception.
www.johnnorrisbrown.com /paranormal-tn/ga/kennesaw.htm   (0 words)

  
 Georgia Marker Notes Johnston's Brushy Mountain Line
The portion of trenches in question were part of the western anchor of the Brushy Mountain Line, an 11-mile long length of interconnected trenches and forts commanding the high ground on the approaches to Marietta and Atlanta.
The marker recounts the local tactical situation, the decision to fortify the mountain on June 11, 1864, and the order to evacuate that part of the line four days later after Confederate Gen. Leonidas Polk was killed by artillery fire on Pine Mountain.
The segment of trenches where the marker was erected was not the scene of heavy fighting, but of frequent skirmishing between the Confederates and Union forces probing the line.
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 Kennesaw Mountain/National Battlefield Park | Museum/Attraction Review | Atlanta | Frommers.com
Sherman's men were repelled by massive bursts of firepower and huge rocks which the Confederates rolled down the mountain at them.
There are 16 miles of hiking trails for those who want a more extensive tour (trail maps are available at the visitor center), and picnicking is permitted in designated areas, some of which boast barbecue grills.
The scenery is gorgeous, so even if Civil War battles are not your thing (that is, if you're reluctantly accompanying an enthusiastic spouse or friend), you'll find some beautiful hiking or driving.
www.frommers.com /destinations/atlanta/A21872.html   (0 words)

  
 Lipsett Family Home Page
The Kennesaw Battlefield Camp of SCV, based in Marietta, nominated Sgt. Isaac Peter Collier for the honor this summer but recently learned the nomination had been declined.
Through extensive research, Blair, along with Stone Mountain SCV member Chris Davis, uncovered the little-known story of Collier, who served In the 5th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry of the Confederate Army.
Blair, retired from BellSouth, said he decided to champion Collier's cause partly because he fought at Kennesaw Mountain but also because he was inspired by his brave act.
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 Battle of Pickett's Mill
Referred to in general terms like "The Dallas Line" or "Hell Hole" by Union soldiers, three separate battles south of Kingston are frequently confused and often combined.
The story of the Battle of Pickett's Mill begins ten days earlier, as Sherman occupies Kingston, Georgia.
The battle of Pickett's Mill is a decisive victory for the Confederates.
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