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Kennesaw Mountain is a mountain between Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia in the United States with a summit elevation of 1,808 feet (551 m). It is the highest point in the core ( urban and suburban ) metro Atlanta area, and fifth after further-north exurban counties are considered.
Kennesaw Battlefield Park preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign, and also contains Kennesaw Mountain. It is located at 900 Kennesaw Mountain Drive, between Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia. The name "Kennesaw" derives from the Cherokee Indian "Gah-nee-sah" meaning "cemetery" or burial ground. [4]
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.The most significant frontal assault launched by Union Major General William T. Sherman against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Joseph E. Johnston, it produced a tactical defeat for the Union forces but failed to deliver the result that the Confederacy desperately ...
The iconic peaks of Kennesaw Mountain are visible from the bridge over Interstate 75 that crosses over the city limits of Kennesaw. [13] According to the United States Census Bureau, Kennesaw has a total area of 9.5 square miles (24.7 km 2), of which 9.4 square miles (24.4 km 2) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km 2), or 1.08%, is water. [14]
The Illinois Monument is a public monument located in the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Cobb County, Georgia, United States.The monument honors the soldiers from Illinois who fought in the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War.
Little Kennesaw Mountain is a mountain in Cobb County, Georgia, northwest of Marietta and south of Kennesaw. It is a sub-peak of Kennesaw Mountain , the site of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the 1864 Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War .
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (/ ˈ k ɛ n ɪ s ɔː ˈ m aʊ n t ɪ n ˈ l æ n d ɪ s /; November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and the first commissioner of baseball from 1920 until his death.
Kennesaw Mountain is a high-running ridge between Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia in the United States. Kennesaw Mountain may also refer to: Little Kennesaw Mountain, a sub-peak of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia; Battle of Kennesaw Mountain an 1864 American Civil War battle