Georgia Natural Wonder #264

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Saw some of it and look at the rest little later. Thanks TRD.......

That's probably the best compendium of how those battlefields look in modern times that exists.  Nice work.

Thanks TRD, excellent presentation!  That is where I was born and raised & growing up I’ve read all of those historical markers at one time or another…was very interested in the battle, however I’ve always found it difficult to envision the different sides locations and maneuvers because my brain is so oriented to the roads and neighborhoods developed from the ‘30s - the ‘60s.  

My grandfather relocated from Marietta around 1900 and built a house at the corner of Howell Mill and Defore Ave.  Digging around in their back yard, my father found an 1860 Union field officer’s sword in amazing condition (I still have it). My mother used to talk about walking to school on a short cut path thru the woods and seeing rifles, bayonets, cannon balls, wagons, etc. apparently just left in the woods after the battle…it was mostly still woods until the 20s/30s.

My father built his house on Beaverbrook Dr in ‘47/‘48. Beaverbrook was cut parallel to a trench line dug at some point during the battle.  The line faces north so we assumed it was a confederate line.  One day in the 60s, Franklin Garrett stopped by and asked if there was a trench line in the back yard (per his research and maps) and asked permission to check it out…he spent over an hour with his maps and papers but left without telling us any details!

One of my cousin’s lived at the SE corner of Overbrook and Northside Dr., possibly the most intense firefight of the battle IDK, because whenever his Mom dug in the front or back yard to plant anything she had to remove literally buckets full of mini-balls…we all thought it was cool, but it just made her mad! 

Thanks for all your good work on the GNWs!

(12-23-2024, 08:40 AM)Replying to Top Row Dawg Georgia Natural Wonder #264

Took another 3 weeks to tweak 289 images.

Amazing tour Don after a lifetime of research that I would love to take with you someday. You have it mapped out including all monuments and historical sites & plaques that tells the event that put into motion the failure of defending and the tragic end of the jewel city of Atlanta. The tour lays out the day Hood takes command and totally screws up a solid plan to catch the Federal troops separated between natural barriers and gave Sherman the break and momentum change he needed at a critical point in the invasion of the heart of the confederacy. Hope I get a chance to take the tour this spring.