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The Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History is a museum in Kennesaw, Georgia, that contains a collection of artifacts and relics from the American Civil War, as well as from railroads of the state of Georgia and surrounding regions. The centerpiece is the General, a steam locomotive used in the Great Locomotive Chase in April 1862.
Western & Atlantic Railroad #3 General is a 4-4-0 "American" type steam locomotive built in 1855 by the Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor in Paterson, New Jersey for the Western & Atlantic Railroad, best known as the engine stolen by Union spies in the Great Locomotive Chase, an attempt to cripple the Confederate rail network during the American Civil War.
Charles Garrison Harker (December 2, 1837 – June 27, 1864) was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia during the Atlanta Campaign. Fort Harker in Kansas, an active garrison of the United States Army from 1866 to 1872, was named in his ...
On June 27, 1864, the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain took place in north Georgia as part of the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War. [1] That day, Lansing Dawdy, a Mason and adjutant in the 86th Illinois Infantry Regiment, was shot and severely wounded during a charge on the Dead Angle (Cheatham Hill).
These are Big Kennesaw, which stands 691 ft (211 m) above the surrounding terrain at the northeast end, Little Kennesaw with its nearly 400 ft (122 m) summit, and Pigeon Hill with its 200 ft (61 m) height at the southwest end. From Big Kennesaw's dominating summit, any daytime movements by the Union forces could be immediately observed.
Scott Reeves couldn’t be more thrilled to revisit Port Charles. The actor, who returns to General Hospitalfor several episodes starting Thursday, Oct. 24, will reprise the role of Steven Webber ...
Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty , it became Kennesaw under its 1887 charter.
[29] The battle of Kennesaw Mountain was a decisive Confederate victory. [29] When General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered in North Carolina in April 1865, Storrs sent his men and their horses home from the unit's encampment in Augusta, Georgia. [29]