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The Marietta Confederate Cemetery is one of the largest burial grounds for Confederate dead. It is the resting place to over 3,000 soldiers from all 11 Confederate states plus Maryland, Missouri, and Kentucky. The cemetery was established in 1863 as a gift from Jane Glover who was the wife of Marietta's first mayor. [4]
98001170 [1] Added to NRHP. September 18, 1998. Marietta National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Marietta in Cobb County, Georgia. It encompasses 23.3 acres (9.4 ha), and as of the end of 2006, had 18,742 interments. It is closed to new interments, and is now maintained by the new Georgia National Cemetery.
Marietta: Confederate memorial (1908), Marietta Confederate Cemetery [83] McDonough: Confederate Memorial, courthouse square (1910) [84] Milledgeville: Confederate Memorial Fountain, downtown median, erected by United Daughters of the Confederacy (1912). 20 feet (6.1 m) fall.
Marietta Confederate Cemetery; Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Atlanta; Memory Hill Cemetery; Mordecai Sheftall Cemetery, Savannah; Oak Hill Cemetery, Cartersville, Georgia; Parkhill Cemetery, Columbus; Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Cemetery – large memorial cemetery with hundreds of unmarked confederate graves ...
Confederate States of America cemeteries. This category is for permanent military cemeteries established for Confederate soldiers and sailors who died during campaigns or operations. A common difference between cemeteries of war graves and those of civilian peacetime graves is the uniformity of those interred.
Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Cobb County, Georgia, United States. [4] At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 60,972. The 2019 estimate was 60,867, making it one of Atlanta 's largest suburbs. Marietta is the fourth largest of the principal cities by population of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Chart of public symbols of the Confederacy and its leaders as surveyed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, by year of establishment [note 1]. Most of the Confederate monuments on public land were built in periods of racial conflict, such as when Jim Crow laws were being introduced in the late 19th century and at the start of the 20th century or during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ...
A cannon from GMI, now at the Marietta Confederate Cemetery. In January 2010, the Georgia Army National Guard established its OCS Program at GMI. It is based at the Clay Army National Guard Center (formerly NAS Dobbins) in Marietta at the 122nd Regiment - Regional Training Institute (RTI).