National Park Civil War Series: Kennesaw Mountain and the Atlanta Campaign

Company

National Park Service

Price

$12.99

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Official Store

Kennesaw was the “one last mountain” between General William T. Sherman and Atlanta, Georgia. When Union troops arrived in Marietta, the “Gibraltar of Georgia” towered 1,800 feet and sat only 25 miles west of Sherman’s final destination. Soon, the Union launched a frontal assault on the seven-mile-long Confederate line stationed at Little Kennesaw Mountain, Pigeon Hill, and Cheatham Hill. Although resulting in a tactical victory for the Confederacy, the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain did little to stop Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign and infamous “March to the Sea.” On July 20, 1864, a Southern…