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Kennesaw Mtn Natl Battlefield Park Park Historical Sites & Features |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2013-2014) |
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Kennesaw Mtn Natl Battlefield Park Park Historical Sites & Features |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2013-2014) |
| Various earthworks - entrenchments, rifle pits, gun emplacements, etc. (Ordered generally from North to South within the Park) |
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| Casemated Two Gun Battery, 15th AC (viewed from behind) Kennesaw Mtn visible in background. These earthworks are in relatively remarkable condition. |
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Three (of Four) Artillery emplacements on N side of Big Kennesaw (Walthall's Division) |
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| Six pounder Smoothbores at so-called Ft. McBride, Little Kennesaw Mtn. Note that in 1864, there were 12 pounders at this position. |
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| Stone rifle pit - Little Kennesaw |
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| Stone rifle pit - Pigeon Hill |
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| South of Burnt Hickory Road: |
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| CSA Entrenchments - Walker's Division |
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| CSA Gun Emplacement - Walker's Division |
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| Nearby Gun Emplacement - Walker's Division |
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| Gist's Salient - CSA, Gist's Brigade, Walker's Div.: |
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| Gist's Salient - NE corner |
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| CSA Chevrons - Bates Division, Lewis' Brigade: Just south of Noses Creek, the Confederates made a line of terraced small lunettes on the slope of the bluff. Each lunette consists of two wings, and thus is in the shape of a chevron. There are a total of eight lunettes, each spaced about eight paces apart, with each parapet about five feet lower than the previous one. |
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| View uphill from bottom Chevron |
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| View down from the middle, showing four chevrons |
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| South of Dallas Hwy: |
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| Granbury Redoubt |
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| Turner's Mississippi Battery |
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| Ultramafic outcrop in relation to gun position and battery earthworks |
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| Mebane's Tennessee Battery |
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| Union entrenched ridge crest (Stanley's Division), WSW and across the branch from the Dead Angle. |
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Four-gun CSA artillery emplacement S of Cheatham Hill |
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| CSA line south of the four-gun battery position |